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Recent Posts
- Durden 0.6 Released December 20, 2020
- Arcan versus Xorg: Feature parity and Beyond December 3, 2020
- Arcan 0.6 – ‘M’ – Start Networking November 24, 2020
- A12 – Advancing Network Transparency on the Desktop October 28, 2020
- Leveraging the “Display Server” to Improve Debugging February 10, 2020
- Interfacing with a ‘Stream Deck’ Device October 30, 2019
- Another low-level Arcan client: A tray icon handler May 7, 2019
- Writing a low-level Arcan Client March 3, 2019
- The X Network Transparency Myth November 16, 2018
- Writing a console replacement using Arcan October 31, 2018
- Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity October 17, 2018
- Arcan 0.5.5, Durden 0.5 September 27, 2018
- Revisiting the Arcan Project May 31, 2018
- Towards Secure System Graphics: Arcan and OpenBSD April 25, 2018
- Safespaces: An Open Source VR Desktop March 29, 2018
- Argumenting Client-Side Decorations January 27, 2018
- Arcan 0.5.4, Durden 0.4 December 31, 2017
- Crash-Resilient Wayland Compositing December 24, 2017
- “AWK” for Multimedia October 5, 2017
- Arcan 0.5.3, Durden 0.3 September 22, 2017
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Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity
This is the first article out of two where I will go through what I consider to be the relevant Xorg feature set, and compare it, point by point, to how the corresponding solution or category works in Arcan. This … Continue reading
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Arcan 0.5.5, Durden 0.5
We’ve accumulated enough features and fixes that it is time for yet another release. The beefier changelogs can be found here: (Arcan) and here: (Durden). Starting with the following video which consolidates the visible changes to (indirectly) Arcan and its reference desktop … Continue reading
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Revisiting the Arcan Project
Two years has passed since the public presentation where Arcan and its ecosystem of side projects and tools started to creep out of the woodworks; although the project had been alive and worked on for well-over a decade at that … Continue reading
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Towards Secure System Graphics: Arcan and OpenBSD
Let me preface this by saying that this is a (very) long and medium-rare technical article about the security considerations and minutiae of porting (most of) the Arcan ecosystem to work under OpenBSD. The main point of this article is not … Continue reading
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Safespaces: An Open Source VR Desktop
In this post, I will go through the current stages of work on a 3D and (optionally) VR desktop for the Arcan display server. It is tentatively called safespaces (Github link) as an ironic remark on the ‘anything but safe’ … Continue reading
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Argumenting Client-Side Decorations
Apparently it is the season to chime in on opinions on client side decorations (CSDs) versus server side decorations (SSDs) in the context of Wayland. I normally ignore these kinds of quarrels but this is a case where I consider … Continue reading
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Arcan 0.5.4, Durden 0.4
‘Tis the season to be jolly and just about time for the definitely last release of the year for both Arcan and its related subproject, the Durden desktop environment. Following the pattern from the last release post, lets go through some … Continue reading
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Crash-Resilient Wayland Compositing
A commonly held misbelief about one of the possibly negative consequences with migrating from X11 to Wayland is that the system as a whole will become more brittle due to the merger of the display server and the window manager … Continue reading
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“AWK” for Multimedia
(… and for system graphics, games and other interactive applications but that would make the title just a bit too long…) Many of the articles here have focused on the use of Arcan as a “desktop engine” or “display server”; … Continue reading
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Arcan 0.5.3, Durden 0.3
It’s just about time for a new release of Arcan, and way past due for a new release of the reference desktop environment, Durden. Going through some of the visible changes on a ‘one-clip or screenshot per feature’ basis: Arcan … Continue reading
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