[RFC] Xdummy standalone binary or -dummy switch

2011-09-29 Thread Antoine Martin
Hi, As discussed a while back [1], there are a number of issues which can only be resolved by using an Xdummy binary server in order to replace Xvfb with a more modern equivalent. The only alternative I can think of would be to add a -dummy command line option to Xorg, this feels somewhat more

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-28 Thread Antoine Martin
On 05/28/2011 07:22 AM, Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: 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

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: [PATCH] xf86-video-dummy allow up to 32767x32767

2011-05-06 Thread Antoine Martin
Hi, Patch now sent twice... Am I doing this wrong? Do you need me to make changes or test something else? Cheers Antoine On 04/13/2011 07:41 PM, Antoine Martin wrote: Hi Adam, Can you please apply this patch please? Re-sending as a separate thread with patch in git format-patch. I have

[PATCH] xf86-video-dummy allow up to 32767x32767

2011-04-13 Thread Antoine Martin
:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Martin anto...@devloop.org.uk Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:30:26 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] Constifies and increases the maximum size allowed for dummy screens to 32767x32767 Signed-off-by: Antoine Martin anto...@devloop.org.uk Tested-by: Antoine Martin anto...@devloop.org.uk

Re: dummy driver and maximum resolutions, config hacks via LD_PRELOAD, etc

2011-04-07 Thread Antoine Martin
On 04/07/2011 06:57 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On 4/6/11 6:38 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:37:52PM -0700, Antoine Martin wrote: diff --git a/src/dummy_driver.c b/src/dummy_driver.c index 804e41e..05450d5 100644 --- a/src/dummy_driver.c +++ b/src/dummy_driver.c @@ -85,6

dummy driver and maximum resolutions, config hacks via LD_PRELOAD, etc

2011-04-06 Thread Antoine Martin
Hi, As suggested on this list a while back, I am trying to replace Xvfb with the Xorg + dummy driver. 1) I can't seem to make it use resolutions higher than 2048x2048 which is a major showstopper for me: Virtual height (2560) is too large for the hardware (max 2048) Virtual width (3840) is too

Re: dummy driver and maximum resolutions, config hacks via LD_PRELOAD, etc

2011-04-06 Thread Antoine Martin
On 04/06/2011 09:13 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On 4/6/11 6:51 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: 1) I can't seem to make it use resolutions higher than 2048x2048 which is a major showstopper for me: Virtual height (2560) is too large for the hardware (max 2048) Virtual width (3840) is too large

Re: Manipulate x windows

2010-08-14 Thread Antoine Martin
Have a look at wmctl and devilspie A. Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: OK, I know this is more of a WM question... I'm looking for a CLI utility that would let me manipulate (resize and relocate) windows based on WM_NAME or WM_CLASS. Is anyone aware of any such thing? I need to open a

Re: Restoring Xhost Connection

2010-07-09 Thread Antoine Martin
On 07/09/2010 03:21 AM, Liew, Philip wrote: Hi, I just have a question regarding restoring lost X connections. I was running an application remotely through X and during the course of the day that connection dropped. The application was still running but I was no longer

Re: single mouse click interpreted as a double click (again)

2010-06-22 Thread Antoine Martin
Done: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28673 I have added a little bit of info on there: these extra clicks happen more often on some machines than others... no idea why. Antoine On 06/21/2010 07:05 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:40:44PM +0700, Antoine Martin

Re: Xvfb

2010-05-28 Thread Antoine Martin
. Antoine Martin wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:52 AM, Collins, Cris wrote: I am trying to get dual heads and xinerama to work with Xvfb and getting: xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA Xlib: extension XINERAMA missing on display :0.0. XINERAMA extension not supported by server That's your answer. Xvfb

Re: Xvfb

2010-05-27 Thread Antoine Martin
On 05/28/2010 01:52 AM, Collins, Cris wrote: I am trying to get dual heads and xinerama to work with Xvfb and getting: xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA Xlib: extension XINERAMA missing on display :0.0. XINERAMA extension not supported by server That's your answer. Xvfb :90 -screen 0 1024x2048x24

Re: detect the screensaver [SOLVED] sort of

2009-09-18 Thread Antoine Martin
* 3 (rather than on/off/disabled) Is there another extension which can be used to figure out if the screen is locked? Thanks Antoine Antoine Martin wrote: Hi, What is the official way of detecting when the screensaver is activated? I thought it might be the _SCREENSAVER_STATUS property

RandR support for Xvfb

2009-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin
Hi, I found this post about implementing RandR for Xvnc: http://www.nabble.com/Implementing-RandR-td19513964.html Does anyone know what the status is on this? Is there a patch? How much work is left/would it be to get RandR working on Xvfb? Thanks Antoine

restoring XvMC with DRI2 with xf86-video-intel-2.6.0

2009-01-22 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, As can be seen in the: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.0 There is a commit named: Disable XvMC on DRI2 for now XvMC is quite important in desktop environments (as it is very difficult to get decent video playback speed without it) Are