2009/7/27 Jim Gettys <[email protected]>: > walt wrote: >> Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many >> people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was >> designed to be used. Seems to introduce a great deal of confusing >> complexity for features many of us never use.
> Actually, quite a lot. E.g. HP and others sell thin clients in > commercial (and engineering) settings. And LTSP is quite popular in the > developing world for more general desktop use. Extrapolating yourself > to the world is fraught with difficulties... And things like support for multiple video cards suddenly going away, because the devs weren't thinking outside the case of a Linux workstation with one screen. What other functionality in X isn't used in the "single screen Linux workstation" case and could do with conscious awareness so it isn't inadvertently broken? - d. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
