
I had an idea, and now I’m wondering… how well could this approach scale…?

#lang_en #input #gnu #linux #lignux #x11 #unicode #ime
I built a latency meter with an Arduino and a photo transistor to answer one question: Is click-to-photon latency higher on Wayland than on X11?
And the answer is: Yes, actually.
⏱️ 42 ms on X11, compositing off
⏱️ 56 ms on X11, compositing on
⏱️ 64 ms on Wayland
⏱️ 71 ms on Windows 10
Tested with Plasma 6.3.4 and Firefox 137. I will improve my methods and confirm these numbers. See replies for details.
#Arduino #DIY #Electronics #X11 #Wayland #Linux #KDE #Plasma #Latency #Performance #Gaming
Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm
#HackerNews #Plwm #X11 #window #manager #Prolog #programming #GitHub #open #source
Wrote a blogpost about simple (I mean with a shell and a text editor) #X11 configuration.
Covered topics:
1) #Trackball configuration for left hand. Also remapping of some buttons to have scrolling and middle button (not exists out of the box).
2) Theming: #GTK2 #GTK3 #QT , installing cursor(s), fonts and icons.
3) #Xrandr for multimonitor configuration
4) #Xserver settings for #HighDPI
5) #XDG utils and #Emacs as a system file manager
6) #XDM login window
https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html