On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 02:44:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote: > Just to let you all know: Getting students to build xf86-video-nested > worked out well, so we're starting another X-related PSU Capstone > project. This time Jeremy is joining Josh and me as project sponsors. > > The goal this time around is to replace the XQuartz DDX. We'll run the > stock xfree86 DDX (though Jeremy's patches to make it run in OS X aren't > all merged yet, I think?) with a video-dummy driver. > > The students' task is to replace the functionality currently provided by > the server's generic rootless layer and the input and rendering support > provided by XQuartz, which we're asking them to do by writing a > compositing window manager that sucks window contents out of the server > and blits them into native windows. Similarly, for the initial > implementation they'll use XTest to inject input from native sources > into the server. > > We hope that the resulting client code can be shared with other > platforms, so future work may include replacing XWin with a Windows > version of the same client. It may also be useful to build versions on > Weyland or another X server. The latter would be different from Xnest > because it's rootless, which we don't currently have for X nested in X. > > The students are just starting to gather requirements this week. If all > goes well, their project should complete in late March.
I wonder how much effort it would be to write a xf86-video-vnc that runs on xfree86 ddx. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
