Sessions at FOSDEM 2010 about X Window System

Sunday 7th February 2010

• Polishing X11 and making it shiny

  by Daniel Stone

  There are a few niggles about X11 today that mean every embedded device vendor patches the server in various unpleasant ways, whereas on the desktop it just looks suboptimal and we suck it up.

  This talk will cover a few parts of X11, such as client-side cursors, the video API, Composite, RandR, which currently need to be improved to make X11 look as good as it possibly can, without going to Wayland or X12.

  • X Window System

  At 1:00pm to 1:45pm, Sunday 7th February

  Coverage slide deck

• The free software desktop’s graphics driver stack

  by Luc Verhaegen

  • Free Desktop
  • Linux Kernel
  • OpenGL
  • X Window System

  At 2:00pm to 2:45pm, Sunday 7th February

• GPU Userspace - kernel interface & Radeon kernel modesetting status

  by Jerome Glisse

  • GPU
  • Linux Kernel
  • X Window System

  At 3:00pm to 3:45pm, Sunday 7th February

• X on e-Paper

  by Mikhail Gusarov

  • Mobile devices
  • X Window System

  At 4:00pm to 4:45pm, Sunday 7th February