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Jasper St. Pierre Continue reading ]]> Merry Christmas, folks! I
hope everything is well for you. It’s been a while, hasn’t it…
So, last year, you might remember that I wrote The Linux
Graphics Stack. I’ve since wanted to do a followup for that, as
more of a detailed history lesson on X11, but there’s a lot to
explain. I’ve been working on it off and on since January, and I
got burned out on it.  Last month, I was thinking about finally
publishing it, so I opened it up, and read the words “last year,
I wrote an article on The Linux Graphics Stack”. Obviously, I
needed to publish it before it went out of date, and that was
enough motivation to just get it done. I’ve been working hard on
this for the last month, doing research, coding demos, and
writing prose. It’s a lot of fun, and quite rewarding when you
sit down and write a bunch of code to let the user drag windows
around in your mock-