Re: X Window system on Handheld devices

2011-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/16/11 06:43 PM, David Jackson wrote: Has the X.org organisation ever thought of promoting X.org for use by companies on thier handheld devices such as phones? You mean like back in the days when Jim Gettys was one of the leaders of handhelds.org and doing research at the Compaq/HP

Re: X Window system on Handheld devices

2011-07-17 Thread David Jackson
You are making assumptions, that no company will ever produce a hardware device that has a monochrome screen. Yet, a monochrome screen would be suitable for ereader devices such as a kindle. As for code, memory today is cheap. I've looked closely at X memory useage and it seems from what i can

Re: X Window system on Handheld devices

2011-07-17 Thread Corbin Simpson
Responding inline. On Jul 17, 2011 9:38 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: You are making assumptions, that no company will ever produce a hardware device that has a monochrome screen. Yet, a monochrome screen would be suitable for ereader devices such as a kindle. No such

Re: X Window system on Handheld devices

2011-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/17/11 09:38 AM, David Jackson wrote: You are making assumptions, that no company will ever produce a hardware device that has a monochrome screen. Yet, a monochrome screen would be suitable for ereader devices such as a kindle. I own a kindle so understand that well. The only

[PATCH] xserver: add udev/systemd multi-seat support

2011-07-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
Add support for multi-seat-aware input device hotplugging. This implements the multi-seat scheme explained here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat This introduces a new X server switch -seat which allows configuration of the seat to enumerate hotplugging devices on. If