[ANNOUNCE] util-macros 1.14.0

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This release of the common autoconf macros for X.Org software adds some support to help check for different compilers and enable more code checking features in them. It also reduces warnings generated when autoconf-2.68 is used to generate configure

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread David Jackson
The code bases for the X multiplexers/proxies were actually Xmove, Xmx and XTV. Sorry about the confusion. I gave the wrong names. Xmx was developed at brown university. I had tried Xmove before and it works with 16 bit displays but apparently does not work with 24 bit displays. None of them are

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Glynn Clements
David Jackson wrote: The main thing to bear in mind is the client-server model. If you want to migrate a connection to a different X server, you either have to ensure that the new X server will behave exactly like the old one, or make the client adjust to the change. The former is

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/11 12:29 PM, David Jackson wrote: The client wouldnt have to be moved between servers at all, it could be the same proxy server, the proxy server could then open up connections to actual X servers and forward things to the real X servers. The proxy would massage and rework data as

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread David Jackson
Thank you for the information. As I mentioned, I was previously aware of Xmx, Xmove and XTV.. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 05/26/11 12:29 PM, David Jackson wrote: The client wouldnt have to be moved between servers at all, it could

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread David Jackson
THanks for the info on XPRA. I will give it a try. It looks promising and the way they use the compositing manager sounds genius. It sounds like they get basically final rasterised data from the compositor, so basically it seems like a huge bitmap, if I am correct. Or maybe I am not. If hardware

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Pat Kane
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:18 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: I was not able to find any documentation on a VNC loadable module anywhere. Is there a place where one can find out about this? My build was based on these instructions:

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Antoine Martin
On 05/28/2011 12:39 AM, David Jackson wrote: THanks for the info on XPRA. I will give it a try. It looks promising and the way they use the compositing manager sounds genius. It sounds like they get basically final rasterised data from the compositor, so basically it seems like a huge bitmap,

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread David Jackson
This advice is valid for all software projects. if you want people to help develop software, document the software code with documentation. Explain how the parts of the software fit together, how the code operates, explain what the different parts do, document functions and variables and what each

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2011-05-27 Thread display
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Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/27/11 04:43 PM, David Jackson wrote: This advice is valid for all software projects. if you want people to help develop software, document the software code with documentation. Explain how the parts of the software fit together, how the code operates, explain what the different parts

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread Evgeny M. Zubok
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes: The client wouldnt have to be moved between servers at all, it could be the same proxy server, the proxy server could then open up connections to actual X servers and forward things to the real X servers. The proxy would massage and rework data as

[ANNOUNCE] util-macros 1.14.0

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This release of the common autoconf macros for X.Org software adds some support to help check for different compilers and enable more code checking features in them. It also reduces warnings generated when autoconf-2.68 is used to generate configure

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-27 Thread David Jackson
As far as I know NX is a tunneling and compression technology but will not maintain a persistant X applications or session. The applications are started when you connect from a remote location. As far as X peristant session, an up to date XVNC that supports Render would probably be fine a On

[ANNOUNCE] resourceproto 1.2.0

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 1.2 of XResource protocol adds two requests: XResQueryClientIds and XResQueryResourceBytes. They can be used for more exactly determining which resources are used by which clients. Support for these requests is planned for integration in the