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Thank You :)

    > Do the same for X!

I kinda did ... but for RAM usage and not disk space.

Details here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd...

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> What I really loved is that XLibre X11 packages DOES NOT CONFLICT with Xorg packages. You just install xlibre instead of xorg and everything works … even better then with Xorg

How do you control which one is used? I was expecting xlibreinit or something, but the rest of the post appears to just run xinit like normal with nothing that I noticed that would select an X implementation

What I expected - that if I would want to install Openbox - then Xorg will be forced.

I typed:

    # pkg install xlibre

... and X11 XLibre implementation installed and Openbox installed properly and 'xorg' packages was not forced.

The binaries of XLibre still have the same old 'Xorg' names like 'Xorg' is the server binary name (not 'XLibre') and xinit(1) is still xinit(1) ...

But if you already have 'xorg' package installed and you would like to install 'xlibre' package then there would be conflicts as they install file into the same places - and often with the same names.

Hope that helps.

Oh, I see. I would have described that as that the packages did conflict - that one replaces the other - but that other packages accept either implementation. Either way you phrase it, thanks for clarifying

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