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Note: The maintainer of XQuartz has been looking for help for a long time but the story is buried in an issue comment.

https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/91#issuecomment-80...

Seems unlikely anyone will ever step in here. X11 is dead now. Even X11 on Linux has no contributors

Not dead for me. I use it for headless cloud image and video processing all the time. Long live xv!

X11 is mostly finished. There’s still active development ongoing for eg. the hardened version of Xorg Xenocara (by OpenBSD, also used by Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre), and the suckless mobile UI sxmo (last commit 18 hours ago https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/).

Edit: also it’s fairly ironic you’re calling it dead on HN. Official Arc (the language HN’s written in) hasn’t been updated in about 12 years IIUC. xorg-server was updated last December https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-December/003....

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