On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 23:00 +0200, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
Hello Brian, hello List,
since version 3.0-14 which was released on october 14th 2009, we don't use xming "as product" any more. The reason was, that we were not happy with it (as it was not "free enough"). So we found the following HowTo on freedesktop.org which describes how you can build Xorg for windows on your own:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming/Building
The source can also be found inside the upcomming berlios git and in our "preparation git":
The only change we made is to get it running with our plugin. We can't reproduce the described bug on our systems - so we can't fix it at the moment, but we are willing to do so.
best regards,
Alex & Heinz <snip> That's interesting. I was not aware that's how you bundled the Windows XServer. As someone who used both 3.01-2 and 3.01-4, the performance improvement in 3.01-4 was astounding. At least in our environment, 3.01-2 was almost unusable - very, very slow. 3.01-4 was just as fast as using a Linux client. I definitely do not want to step backwards in terms of performance.
The bug is maddeningly random. It seems to be provoked by some applications more than others. We have users who lose the mouse between two and four times every day. Those users make heavy use of rdesktop. We were not initially able to reproduce the error. We finally did by just letting it sit and having the screen saver kick (we start automatically at five minutes and lock after one). That does not always provoke the error but it does occasionally.
Right now, we are testing replacing the provided xming with the website paid version to see if the problem goes away. Thanks - John