Xorg

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2008–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Xorg, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 11 complaints

Multi-monitor setup is a nightmare and barely works for complex layouts2024-05-20
Scaling on multiple 4K monitors caused huge lag under Xorg2024-05-20
Windows change scale inconsistently when dragged across screens, making the desktop feel unpredictable2024-03-07
Tearing can't be fixed without uneven framerate and microfreezes2022-08-16
HiDPI scaling on Xorg is a mess, even with Ubuntu's cleanup2021-11-03
Copy-on-select clipboard behaviour is broken and can't be disabled, and only one clipboard exists2021-08-30
Only 1x, 2x and 4x scaling offered, so fractional scaling needed for high-DPI screens is unavailable2021-02-03
Xorg needs obscure hidden configuration knowledge to get tearfree scrolling working2021-02-02
Constant screen tearing makes it unusable for the commenter2021-02-02
Wacom tablet had wrong button bindings and conflicting settings, requiring manual xinput fixes2016-08-27
Copying and pasting between iTerm and Xorg is a pain2008-04-12