Re: How to start with X?

2020-01-23 Thread Dave Howorth
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:26:32 +0100 Emanuele Petriglia wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to learn how to create a C graphical application without > using some toolkit for hobby. I know that there are two main > libraries: Xlib and xcb. The first is old but has a lot of > documentation, the second is

Re: X server does not have an option to specify which address to listen on for TCP connections

2020-05-12 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 11 May 2020 14:38:48 + ornx wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, May 11, 2020 8:18 AM, Attila Kinali > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 May 2020 01:41:11 + > > ornx o...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > > > why? > > > > Probably because it has never come up? X was

Fw: X server does not have an option to specify which address to listen on for TCP connections

2020-05-11 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 11 May 2020 14:38:48 + ornx wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, May 11, 2020 8:18 AM, Attila Kinali > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 May 2020 01:41:11 + > > ornx o...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > > > why? > > > > Probably because it has never come up? X was

Re: No keysyms send on level 7+

2020-09-09 Thread Dave Howorth
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:19:38 +1000 Adam Nielsen wrote: > > I have remapped > > `CapsLock` to `Backspace` > > `AltGr` to `ControlR` > > `ControlR` to `AltR`, > > > > Now if i type one of the next sequences, it will be well > > interpreted : > > • `ControlR` + `AltR` + `Backspace` > > • `ControlR`

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 23:11:55 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 02 October 2020 19:55:53 Aaron Plattner wrote: > > > On 10/2/20 1:17 PM, Dan Arena wrote: > > > Gene, > > > > > > Following up more about xfce4, you should be able to go into their > > > Settings Manager and you can turn off

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-08-03 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:36:42 -0400 Adam Jackson wrote: > (accidentally sent to just sam initially, whoops) > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sam Varshavchik > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:30 AM Böszörményi Zoltán > > wrote: > > > 2020. 07. 30. 21:20 keltezéssel, Dennis Clarke

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-24 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith wrote: > X.Org, to whom it may concern: > > I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an > optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior. > > The rationale is simple: > Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-27 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith wrote: > X.Org, to whom it may concern: > > I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an > optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior. > > The rationale is simple: > Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to

Re: [Nouveau] Xorg evoc

2021-01-06 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 14:18:23 +0100 Karol Herbst wrote: > uhm.. good question, but I think so. Might be best to ask on the xorg > ML as well > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:10 PM Nikunj goyal > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > I was surfing the web and i came across this program endless summer > >

Re: Problem with X and JPEG2000 images

2021-01-01 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:14:45 + Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 14:37:58 +0100 szukw000 said: > > As Alan said - there are limits on X primitives and coordinates > (16bit). Winfried I think what both Alan and Carsten are pointing out is that this is a bug in fltk and not in X.

Re: Checking when SCREEN_RESOURCES property is updated

2022-01-09 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:29:50 + Xaro wrote: > Hello, > > I have an application that reads some Xresources file configs to > update its theme. > > So i use XOpenDisplay, XResourceManagerString and > XrmGetStringDatabase from libx11 to get the fields that i want. > > My problem is when the

Re: The keyboard interfaces and protocols in X

2022-02-15 Thread Dave Howorth
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:21:07 +0200 John Found wrote: > What is the meaning of the fields in the following structure, in the > XkbGetMap reply: > > KB_KEYSYMMAP 8+4n > 4 LISTofCARD8ktIndex ; What is this? > 1 CARD8 groupInfo; What is this? > 1 CARD8

Re: The keyboard interfaces and protocols in X

2022-02-15 Thread Dave Howorth
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:21:07 +0200 John Found wrote: > It is not explained in the documentation. Well, or I missed to find > it. You don't say where you found the things that you want explained, and I'm no expert so I have no idea what documentation you looked at. As is often the case arch has

Re: Find a good config guide

2022-03-22 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:09:44 -0500 Michael Needham wrote: > Greetings: > > I have been using Linux for over 25 years and have used FreeBSD off > and on in that time. As we speak I am running an Arch based distro > and thinking of switching my daily driver to FBSD. > > My experience with X

Re: X11 cut (as cut/paste) accuracy

2022-01-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:50:16 +0100 Phi Debian wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not subscribed, let me know if I need to, to post a question. > > I have difficulties to select my text with a mouse (cut/paste) at a > line start, and in a less extend to a midlle line char. I got the > filling that to

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:14:38 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 8/31/23 10:01, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > I don't know exactly why they named things as they did. One > > possibility is that the idea was that a display could consist of > > several physical devices, like an airport display for

Re: Debugging multiple X11 servers spawning

2023-09-18 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:02:08 -0700, Michael Sheely wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to debug an issue with a notification daemon > > On the debug thread > https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/1186#issuecomment-1677737252, > a maintainer suggests that my logs indicate multiple X11 severs

Re: Debugging multiple X11 servers spawning

2023-09-19 Thread Dave Howorth
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:25:11 -0400, Chris Sorenson wrote: > > 1. Re: Debugging multiple X11 servers spawning > > Run top and see if there are multiple iterations of xinit running. There are none on the machine on which the X display I am writing this is running. There are other ways of starting

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:46:35 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote: > > > > > >> Those accesses might not stop with just the display off - so

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Dave Howorth
There is more than one console (usually), you can switch between them > with Alt-F1, Alt-F2, etc.. > > There are also ways to restrict profiling to a single process, > like "perf top -p 12345". > > best > > Vladimir Dergachev > > > > > On Saturda

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:28:52 + (UTC) Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote: > I need to run a set of (graphical) benchmarks with the screen > disabled. Can I ask why? What is you're trying to accomplish? Somehow affect the benchmarks? Stop people seeing the benchmarks being performed? And what is the

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote: > > > >> Those accesses might not stop with just the display off - some > > >> applications may keep redrawing. > > Will these accesses cause iGPU or dedicated GPU accesses to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] fslsfonts 1.0.6

2022-09-12 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 09:55:07 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > fslsfonts produces a list of fonts served by an X font server. Pardon my ignorance, but my google-foo is weak apparently, and I haven't been able to dicover what the difference is between fslsfonts and xlsfonts. The man pages provide

Re: [ANNOUNCE] fslsfonts 1.0.6

2022-09-10 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 09:55:07 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > fslsfonts produces a list of fonts served by an X font server. Pardon my ignorance, but my google-foo is weak apparently, and I haven't been able to dicover what the difference is between fslsfonts and xlsfonts. The man

Re: [ANNOUNCE] fslsfonts 1.0.6

2022-09-11 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:44:45 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote: [snip] > As for why the man pages don't explain the difference, like most > things there is no real reason beyond "because no one has yet added an > explanation" - this is a nearly 30 year old distinction, and many of > those involved

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-24 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >> So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg > >> command line and it works! > > > > wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... > > well well.

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-25 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:05:33 +0100 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 01:18:29 + (UTC) Michael K > said: > > > I'm trying to connect an old HP logic analyzer (circa 1998) to a > > modern Xorg server. The error message I get is ... > > > > Xlib: connection to "192.168.1.1:1.0"

Re: Conda xorg-x11-server-xvfb-cos7-x86_64

2024-04-15 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 17:12:01 +, Michael Johnston wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for your work with xvfb! > I've been finding it very useful for headless applications. > > I've recently been trying to integrate xvfb-run into conda > environments. It appears that the conda package >