Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-23 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Jason Spiro wrote: Problem: Many[1] users have killed X by accident.[2] Solution idea: Make it harder to kill X by accident. E.g. you could change the key sequence users must press. * Maybe require Control+Alt+Backspace then Control-Alt-Y.[3] * Or require Control+K+X pressed

Re: Building X

2008-09-23 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 16:55 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: You don't ask for the stipple though. It's the default. My point was that if you want to avoid the vintage X appearance, you'd likely start the X server with a

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 03:20 +, Jason Spiro wrote: Tiago Vignatti vignatti at c3sl.ufpr.br wrote: The DontZap option in xorg.conf isn't enough for you? `man 5 xorg.conf` It would work fine for me. But it's not good enough for most users, since most Xorg users don't know how to edit

DRI extension of xserver

2008-09-23 Thread Mustafizur
Hi, I was investigating the DRI extension API of the xserver i was particularly looking into the XF86DRICreateContext API. As i see when client sends this request to xserver, in response to this Xserver creates a drm context pass it to the client.Client then sends this drm context to the 3D

Re: handling BTN_TOUCH in evdev driver

2008-09-23 Thread Søren Hauberg
2008/9/22 Adam Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:56 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: Hi, I've making some changes tu the usbtouchscreen module to handle calibration stuff (see another thread on this list). This module currently emits BTN_TOUCH whenever the user touches the

SaveSetMap doubly defined

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Following a recent change SaveSetMap is now doubly defined leading to compilation warnings and possible error. in dixstruct.h #define SaveSetMap(ss) ((ss).map) for XFIXES in xfixeswire.h #define SaveSetMap 0 Thanks Colin Harrison

Re: current git head of Xserver segfaults on a keyhit

2008-09-23 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:01:19PM +0930, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:08:37PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: the current git head of the Xserver segfaults on any keystroke. Trace is attached: Can I have a log please? attached. -- Lukáš Hejtmánek

Re: handling BTN_TOUCH in evdev driver

2008-09-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:18:02AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: I guess that also depends on the kernel. The 'usbtouchscreen' kernel module only sends BTN_TOUCH, but I don't know about other modules in the kernel. Anyway, I have two goals, 1) get a short term solution, that'll work right now,

X.Org 7.4 - when?

2008-09-23 Thread Stefan Dirsch
Hi I'm wondering what happened to the planned release of X.Org 7.4? The latest I've heard about was the email by Adam Jackson on Wed Sep 3, where he stated: --- Well, that took long enough. This is almost certainly the server that will go into Xorg 7.4. The module set for same is available

Re: handling BTN_TOUCH in evdev driver

2008-09-23 Thread Søren Hauberg
2008/9/23 Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:18:02AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: I guess that also depends on the kernel. The 'usbtouchscreen' kernel module only sends BTN_TOUCH, but I don't know about other modules in the kernel. Anyway, I have two goals, 1) get a

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-23 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
2008/9/23 Jason Spiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Linux, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots unconditionally only in console mode. Only expert users use console mode. When X is running, on all my Linux machines, Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a shutdown-or-reboot? dialog instead. The vast majority of Linux users run

Re: X.Org 7.4 - when?

2008-09-23 Thread Pat Kane
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Stefan Dirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which issues are still open? The color of the bikeshed? ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Building X

2008-09-23 Thread James Cloos
Adam == Adam Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam You say this as though taste wasn't a good reason. Not everyone agrees, though, that the traditional pattern and cursor on startup is less tasteful than your preference. There is a reason that, when the black root was first added to XFree86,

Re: Various patches

2008-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 10:57 +0100, John Tapsell wrote: Hi all, The first patch applies to xorg/xserver and replaces the requirement of openssl with an internal SHA1 implementation. The SHA1 code is the code that openbsd uses and is public domain. Using an internal SHA1 implementation

Re: Various patches

2008-09-23 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/23 Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 10:57 +0100, John Tapsell wrote: Hi all, The first patch applies to xorg/xserver and replaces the requirement of openssl with an internal SHA1 implementation. The SHA1 code is the code that openbsd uses and is public

Re: Various patches

2008-09-23 Thread James Cloos
John == John Tapsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Pretty much every single embed system? John Openssl doesn't crosscompile. John If you revert this patch, you make it not possible to John cross-compile X, afaics. The pre-patch code also looks for libmd (google has a number of good hits),

Re: Various patches

2008-09-23 Thread James Cloos
JimC == James Cloos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JimC (The reverted patch used Brian Gladman's public domain C JimC implementation.) I wrote that from memory after having read thru the patch on the commits list. But I either mis-read or mis-remembered. The reverted patch actually uses Steve

Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:35:12PM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: An issue that is often discussed is the xkbcomp utility, that parses the xkeyboard-config configuration files and produces a binary XKM file that X.Org can

Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-23 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:35:12PM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: An issue that is often discussed is the xkbcomp utility, that parses the xkeyboard-config configuration files and produces a binary XKM file that X.Org can

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-23 Thread Clemens Eisserer
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Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:42:29AM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: The next step in replacing xkbcomp would be to list any of the structures we many want to eliminate or reduce some of the fields. xkb_keymap | xkb_keycodes | xkb_types | xkb_compatibility |

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-23 Thread William Tracy
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Corbin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, to put it another way, distros should default to DontZap, except for Gentoo. :3 I've had to use ctrl+alt+backspace fairly often in the past due to buggy window managers. (I'm looking at you, Enlightenment.) Or due to

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-23 Thread Jake Briggs
I have never ever ever ever accidentally hit the zap key combo, and neither has anyone of the 5 linux users in my office! The closet I have come is playing doom 12 years ago, without a mouse, using ctrl for strafe, alt for fire and delete for change weapons -- Jacob Briggs Systems

Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-23 Thread James Cloos
Simos == Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simos only xkb_symbols{} is likely to change by the user, when X.org is used Simos on a small device. If it is possible to add an external keyboard to Simos the small device, then xkb_geometry, xkb_keycodes may change as well. And compat. The

Re: Radeon X700 Mobility: [mi] EQ overflowing ... server lockup

2008-09-23 Thread dan
Hi Alex. Thanks for the response. On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0400, Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:26 +1000, Daniel wrote: Hi all. I've been on the 'bleeding edge' ( git ) of mesa, xserver,

Re: [PATCH 0/3] X Input 1.5 device properties (final patches)

2008-09-23 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: Right, I can see your point. How about the patch below (untested)? It's on top of the other patches and adds a DeleteProperty handler, and a deletable flag. Looks good. If deletable is FALSE, the prop can only be deleted by the server/a driver, and even then only if all

Re: Building X

2008-09-23 Thread Aaron Plattner
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:40:19AM -0400, James Cloos wrote: Adam == Adam Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam You say this as though taste wasn't a good reason. Not everyone agrees, though, that the traditional pattern and cursor on startup is less tasteful than your preference.