Re: Communicating with the x-server

2014-03-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:45 +0100, Thomas Sondergaard wrote: My own thought was simply to have the x-server watch a property, say OPEN_URI, on the root window. Would that be the way to go? Well, that or add another request to the VNC extension. I'm not sure if there's a private namespace

Re: Communicating with the x-server

2014-03-05 Thread Thomas Sondergaard
Hi Adam, On 2014-03-05 20:10, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:45 +0100, Thomas Sondergaard wrote: My own thought was simply to have the x-server watch a property, say OPEN_URI, on the root window. Would that be the way to go? Well, that or add another request to the VNC

Communicating with the x-server

2014-03-04 Thread Thomas Sondergaard
Hi, I need to implement an Open URI feature for a VNC x-server. The idea is that a Qt application running under the VNC x-server can communicate to the X-server the URI it wants to open, the X-server then needs to send the URI via the VNC (RFB) protocol and the VNC client can then open the