On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:35:40AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > For xcb, I was wondering about the xcb-util changes rather than > Python. I've just managed to connect to fedora - they're still on > xcb-util-0.3.6 (and they usually stay close to the bleeding edge). > > PLD are on 0.3.8 with xcb-util-image-0.3.8 with a note in the -util > specfile that various parts have been split and are 'specs pending'. > Language like that makes me think the're either hard or unnecessary. > > At freedesktop.org I can see -keysyms and -renderutil : all 0.3.8 > variants were released near the end of April, I noticed a question > from a packager in the xorg list archives which didn't seem to get > any response. Haven't looked at debian-unstable (sometimes *more* > bleeding edge, and occasionally broken in use as a result). I'm > wimping out and staying with 0.3.6 unless someone shines light on > this. > In fact, I decided to take a look at debian - all the xcb-util* variants look straightforward. Then I looked at what uses them on my last (full) desktop built with LFS-6.8. ... Nothing, although a lot of htings use the libs provided by libxcb itself. According to the book, xcb-util is needed for xorg apps. So, I double checked those I build (and noted that that some optional deps, such as xxf86misc, have already dropped out of my build).
The only reference to xcb that I could find was in xdpyinfo, which uses (lib)xcb and libX11 built against xcb. The following other apps don't use xcb-util, for any others YMMV (order is my build order) : xbitmaps, iceauth, mkfontdir, setxkbmap, xauth, xclock, xcursorgen, xdriinfo, xev, xgamma, xhost, xinit, xkbcomp, xmodmap, xrdb, xrefresh, xsetroot, xset, xwd. More updates on other things after I've rebuilt firefox now that gtk-engines is installed. I thought Wayne's comments were rather restrained - the menus are hard to use without this, but the pop-ups e.g. for what to do with a download, or for changing preferences, have black text on a black background and clicking only toggles the check box. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
