Re: Cannot get X to start

2011-07-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
industrial-ghetto r400...@gmail.com writes: BoardName Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF BusID PCI:1:0:0 Just curious, how old is that card? ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.com writes: AFAICT, the only advantage is rootless operation. That is quite large advantage. My largest problem with VNC is that switching workspaces is slow since it needs to redraw everything. However, xpra is not usable for me due to keyboard layout

Re: X11 forwarding

2011-05-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: The usual ssh -Y -l gene shop hasn't worked right in quite a while, basically from the responses I'm seeing Could you please copy the responses here too? Are they coming from openssh? Are you using openssh? Are they coming from some X client, or the

Re: reserve screen space / prevent overlapping

2011-05-21 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Benjamin Trias jesuisbenja...@gmail.com writes: Now I would prefer not to use Gtk Hmm? What toolkit are you using then? ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info:

Re: How to properly use XGrabKey to get a program hotkey

2010-10-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
cheshirekow cheshire...@gmail.com writes: My goal is to have a program that sleeps in the background but can be activated by the user via some hotkey. From digging around the Xlib Is this program running as the normal user or is this some privileged service (say switch to another user)?

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ras...@rasterman.com writes: then why not just use xgrabserver during the security sensitive time to lock out all other clients... though composite manager will be locked out. u wont see any rendering on the screen then. :) so u may have a custom solution just

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ras...@rasterman.com writes: 1. if user client does an xgrab(server/keyboard/pointer) and u stop socat before the grab is released.. you're SOL. a race condition or more a state condition you havent accounted for. A possible solution is to just revert to the

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: Sorry if I missed it, but what prevents normal users from connecting to :1 directly? chmod og-rwx /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 (I forgot this from the email indeed.) ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: That doesn't quite work for abstract domain sockets though? Aha, good catch! Indeed it doesn't. Is there any way to configure Xorg to not listen on those? ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ras...@rasterman.com writes: 1. if user client does an xgrab(server/keyboard/pointer) and u stop socat before the grab is released.. you're SOL. a race condition or more a state condition you havent accounted for. It seems that ctrl-alt-/ is enough to kill such

Re: Create a *real* top level window

2010-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ras...@rasterman.com writes: ugh! horrible usability. one should not rely on vt switching as a Agreed, this needs to be resolved. The xterm spawned by root can still be used. It is ok in my use case that it is not possible to move/resize this SAK menu. it

Re: Is it possible to do X forwarding over bluetooth?

2010-09-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Han keepsim...@gmail.com writes: How does X client talk to unix socket? Any function names so I can search? I have not used xlib for a while. IIRC calling XOpenDisplay(:0) tries to use /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 if possible. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org:

Re: Is it possible to do X forwarding over bluetooth?

2010-09-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Han keepsim...@gmail.com writes: btw, I can write program to create socket directly over bluetooth without using PAN. X clients can talk to tcp port or unix socket. You can use the socat program to forward either of those to the stdin of your program.