I really miss classic X11 virtual panning desktops where I can get more real estate just by scrolling offscreen. I have a cyberdeck with a 1080x480 screen, and the vertical resolution is just too low to be able to display most dialogue boxes; if I could just have panning in Wayland it would be fantastic, as the guts are an RPi 5 and X11 is slow as molasses on there due to lack of classic 2D acceleration primitives.

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froh 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

isn't just about anything slow as molasses without 2d acceleration primitives?

I remember to this day the difference between my Hercules dynamite pro without and then with acceleration support. now I feel old.

	▲	anthk 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		FVWM, TWM and others had a grid-like move/resize option where instead of redrawing the whole window you would just move a wireframe around until you placed the window 'down'.

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gedy 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes I had recently tried to fake a scrolling tiling WM this way and surprised it's not available afaics on distros or MacOS?

With that said, I love DankMaterialShell along with Niri, it's basically exactly what I had been wanting after using PaperWM for a while.