XLibre
How can I use XLibre instead of Xorg on Linux Mint? #168
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Mint don't provide any pre-built package. So your only option is compile and install it yourself. No discord but there is matrix and telegram. |
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@shahmir-k There are no pre-built binary packages for Linux Mint yet, but you can have a look at Welcome to XLibre on Other Distributions! · X11Libre · Discussion #212 for what to do. Do you have the confidence to compile XLibre yourself? |
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the short version is that it will be difficult if not impossible on Linux Mint 22 or LMDE6, but will be doable on LMDE7, as Debian 13 upgrades a key package that meson requires while anything based on Debian 12 or ubuntu 24.04 LTS will have a too old version of that package. you'll need to run this to ensure you have all the dependencies you need for Debian 13, and LMDE7 when it comes out, at which point Xlibre will compile and install: |
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What is the name and version of the required package? |
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presentproto. 1.4 or greater is required while Linux Mint 22 has 1.3 and LMDE6 has 1.2 iirc. i think it's part of libxpresent-dev granted this is just where the build process halts. It's possible that if it were to continue there would be several other packages that are too old. |
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Thank you! |
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The way meson build works is that it halts at the first unmet dependancy, which in Mint is presentproto. I believe thag if you somehow installed a compatible version on presentproto it will halt on the next unmet dependancy and again and again, and it's likely several of those dependancies will be too old and will need to be installed from elsewhere. |
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It is enough to "manually edit present proto to 1.3 version, line There was post on telegram how to run Xlibre on mint: linux mint 22.04
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! you can install and start x server from ssh. I suggest open two ssh sessions from your host.
# apt-get install xterm build-essential git meson ninja-build pkg-config libx11-dev libxcb1-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxinerama-dev libxext-dev xutils-dev libpciaccess-dev libxpresent-dev cmake libpixman-1-dev libxkbfile-dev libxfont-dev libxcvt-dev libudev-dev libssl-dev mesa-common-dev libepoxy-dev libxcb-util-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-xkb-dev x11proto-dev autoconf autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool m4-doc libinput-dev libxcb-randr0-dev x11proto-randr-dev libspice-protocol-dev
# git clone --depth 2 https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
# git clone --depth 2 https://github.com/X11Libre/xf86-input-libinput
# git clone --depth 2 https://github.com/X11Libre/xf86-video-qxl
# cd xserver
manually edit present proto to 1.3 version, line `presentproto_dep = dependency('presentproto', version: '>= 1.3', fallback: ['xorgproto', 'ext_xorgproto'])`
# ninja build
# cd build
# ninja install
make defaults happy
# mkdir /var/local/log
# cd ../..
# cd xf86-input-libinput
# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure
# make -j8 install
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/modules/xlibre-25.0/input/libinput_drv.so
at this stage you can start `/usr/local/bin/X -retro` and on other terminal `DISPLAY=:0 xterm`
it can be done with better methods
# ln -s /usr/local/share/aclocal/xorg-server.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-server.m4
# cd ..
# cd xf86-video-qxl
# ./autogen.sh
# make -j8 install
playing dirty here
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/qxl_drv.so /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/modules/xlibre-25.0/drivers/qxl_drv.so
you can start with `/usr/local/bin/X -retro` and try xterm `DISPLAY=:0 xterm`
# configure lightdm to use xlibre server
echo -ne "[Seat:*]\nxserver-command=/usr/local/bin/X\n" > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/libre.conf
# restart lightdm
systemctl restart lightdm |
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https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=451711 |
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Hi I would like to start contributing to xlibre. I have over 10 years of C programming experience but I am new to developing for linux. I would like to start by running xlibre on my linux mint install instead of xorg, and then pushing whatever bugfixes I manage to get done. Does anyone have any experience doing this to help point me in the right direction? Also is there a discord for xlibre?
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