So, A lot of people call X 'bloated' and 'old' [1], without really grokking how incredible the architecture really is.
Jim Gettys did a talk a while back about the history of X, and why it has been held back by a lengthy 'dark age' (blame the proprietary UNIX vendors who were not innovating on the desktop). So, for everyone wondering where their pretty mouse cursors had got to: http://carbon.hemmet.chalmers.se/Pictures/xcursor.png Coming soon - rock! - Jeff [1] 'bloated' X runs on the tiniest of PDAs and watches, and ran on machines far less powerful than our current ones for many years. :-) -- Lego is the plural of Lego. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
