It looks like KWin developer Xaver Hugl has modified the KDE Wiki to tell people not to use Xlibre as they will only be supporting Xorg.
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I hope we can get xLibre working before X11 gets killed.
XLibre is working smoothly in cooker, basically the development branch of OpenMandriva. It will eventually be moved into the ROME repos. It might be pushed out to Rock 6.0, but will most likely wait for the next Rock release.
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My thinking there is it would really not cost the end user anything other than a tiny bit of electricity & time. Possibly have an opt-out for direct donations etc.
And I’m not talking about having the end user’s machine pinned 24-7 mining for the cause either. I’m talking about a tiny sliver of some coin that can be mined on CPU’s like Monero. Have it built into the package manager and it just does it as part of the install of the package or schedules it for later.
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I don’t like the idea of having a miner baked-in to the OS.
Slippery slope and all that.
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Fascinating.
So basically, they are engaged in a policy of sabotage, half-truths, disinformation and outright lies all in the name of a corporate vested interest, and they have engaged the usual suspects to slander and libel those opposing this policy with all sorts of nasty epithets.
Pretty vile behaviour, IMHO.
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It looks like KWin developer Xaver Hugl has modified the KDE Wiki to tell people not to use Xlibre as they will only be supporting Xorg.
Fork KDE then. What else can we do?
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Agreed.
I can see a day when there will exist 2 forks of much of the FOSS SW in general:
- A corporate fork pretending to adhere to the spirit of FOSS, and
- A community driven fork that actually adheres to the spirit of FOSS.
…and of course, we can expect the well-funded group (1) to hurl every possible slander and libel at group (2). Its a pattern that we’ve all seen too much of over the last 10-15 years.
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XFCE exists 
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LXQT also exists, and Trinity desktop
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Only if it was forked by someone who is not a communist transvestite.
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Thanks for XLibre. Unfortunately, the Mageia developers do not support XLibre,
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I think maybe you misunderstood @goro.ddaimonx and the mention of Mageia? Or more probably, I misunderstood your reply as being condescending when it was not meant to be.
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=15469&p=91576&hilit=xlibre#p91581
It’s just that OpenMandriva is different.
Different from what, does not matter 
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Unfortunately I’m not retired. As a friend once put it, we’re on the “Stop breathing Retirement Plan”.
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Any news if this thing comes to ROME?
Or should I write a shell script to: download the latest XLibre and KDE, compile them together and install them on ROME?
To my knowledge, xlibre is still just in Cooker. If you want to write a script to compile the latest KDE and xlibre and install them on ROME, I’ll totally volunteer to help test it! 
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you could just use cooker…
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