Hi, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060516 21:52:29 -0400]: > > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg > > Severity: normal > > > > [snipped] > > > > Digging through Google I happened upon a patch being applied that actually > > turned off LBX support, but I could not find any reason why this had been > > done. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/12/msg00212.html > > > > Any chance of turning it back on? > > Not likely. Upstream has decided that lbx is to be deprecated for the > X11R7.1 release[0], which is currently scheduled to be released this Friday. > The reasons are outlined in this paper: > http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/lbxpost/index.html > which essentially states that lbx is a failed technology. As a result of > both these things I don't see a need to enable lbx currently. > Far enough, I guess thats why all the examples about it pre-date 2003 and its nigh next to impossible to find out more about it.
Cheers for the link to the paper, not the most indepth thing but enlightening. Now what I need is a ncurses LDAP client.... /me goes hunting You can close this 'bug'. Cheers Alex > - David Nusinow > > [0] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ChangesForX11R71 -- _________________________________________ / You can fool some of the people all of \ | the time, and all of the people some of | | the time, but you can never fool your | \ Mom. / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]