Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jens Owen wrote:
>
> > Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > >
> > > On 6 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > >
> > > > Congratulations.
> > > >
> > > > To what extent is the version of Xinerama that X.Org are proposing
> > > > compatible with the XFree86 one?
> > >
> > > It's a different API and the protocol is not compatible. XFree86
> > > will be able to offer both protocols to maintain compatibility with
> > > the few window managers that currently use our version, but we should
> > > deprecate the old API and eventually remove it.
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > How much would the XFree86 internal implementation need to change to
> > support the proposed API? Can we minimize the impact to driver
> > maintenance and other development intensive areas within XFree86?
> >
>
> There is no change to the implementation or drivers, just the
> protocol. The SI is going to be using XFree86's implementation,
> which is mainly why I've been on the X.org Xinerama task force.
That's great news. Thanks for your hard work.
> Part of the Xinerama task force's goal was to have a fixed implementation
> and I'm glad XFree86's implementation was used as the starting
> point for that. I've been integrating the additional fixes into
> CVS as they've been developing. VSW5 is also being modified to
> be Xinerama aware so there should be no failures when everything
> is completed. We already pass everything except for one issue
> that is still being investigated.
>
> There are really only two significant changes: the protocol
> reflects the ability to have multiple Xinerama screens, though
> no implementations will likely support this for some time. And
> second, the addition of a XINERAMA_CENTER_HINT which is a root window
> property to tell clients where they should consider the center
> of the screen. Outside of the Xext protocol interface we need
> to initialize the root window property, and that's about it.
> I'll integrate all that stuff when it's finalized.
Good info.
Regards,
Jens
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