[X2Go-Dev] improve Xinerama

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Ulrich,

On  Di 28 Apr 2015 16:37:52 CEST, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Michael DePaulo  
> <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. We don't patch Xinerama. Rather, nx-libs, our "X server", includes
>> an outdated version:
>> nx-X11/lib/Xinerama
>
> Maybe my wording was a bit misleading. What I meant was this patch:
>
> 0202_nx-X11_enable-xinerama.full.patch
>
> This indeed patches the libXinerama that is built from the nx-x11 tree
> (in nx-X11/lib/Xinerama/Xinerama.c). And that's the one that is
> distributed in x2go and provided via LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have xinerama
> emulation.

Moving that change from libXinerama into the Xserver code is actually  
a good idea. Maybe that is also possible for all the other changes in  
libNX_X<*>.

Also, I would like to get rid of that xinerama.conf and turn it into  
some sort of FIFO socket.

>> 2. We are indeed working on dropping as many of nx-libs's bundled
>> libraries as possible. We replace them with the system's versions.
>> Often this means modifying files under nx-X11/programs/xserver/ like
>> the one you mentioned. I am not sure what the schedule is for
>> libXinerama, but I assume it is on the list. All this work is being
>> done on the nx-libs 3.6.x branch.
>> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/3.6.x
>> https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/tree/3.6.x
>>
>> 3. Hopefully someone can comment on the timetable for dropping the
>> bundled libXinerama. Still, just because we dropped libXinerama
>> doesn't mean we will immediately release nx-libs 3.6.0; We will
>> probably drop other libraries 1st.
>
> Ok, I have not seen a detailed list of the planned steps, does such a
> thing exist?

There is no such list. We coordinate via IRC (#arctica on Freenode).  
The current phase is clean-up-clean-up-clean-up. The other current  
phase is replace libNX_X<*> by libX<*> where possible.

If you are available for coding, maybe you feel like working on the  
Xinerama change?

Best regards,
Mike
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