Brendan Lane Larson wrote: []
appreciated. For instance, if I wanted to run more than one instance of xfree86-rootless environment (let's say I wanted to run an instance per each user that has an account on my Mac Xserve), is the threaded package the one I should install and thus use? Or can one run multiple instances of xfree86-rootless (and also xfree86-base) regardless if its the threaded package or not?As you say yourself below, you probably don't want to run *any* instance of an X server ("xfree86-rootless environment") on your Xserve. You only want to run X clients there, and you can run as many instances of an X client on any machine as you wish.
All this has nothing to do with threaded vs non-threaded versions of the X libraries. There are very few programs that need the threaded versions and even fewer that are allergic against them. The only fink packages that depend on the threaded versions are xine-ui, libxine, gftp, and cdat, and the only known incompatibility with xfree86-threaded is with Matlab. Most of the time it's a non-issue.
Finally, I notice in the packages description that xfree86-rootless is still considered "experimental".What versions are you talking about? There is no separate xfree86-rootless package description any more, and there hasn't been an xfree86-server package for many months. Ah, I see, you mean the package description on the web site. It is definitely a bug that these descriptions are still there, but it says clearly "Not present" in all distributions.
I'm wondering, for my application, if
its better to install and use the xfree86-server instead. Here's what I'd like to do ... I'd like my Xserve with Fink packages installed, to be able to supply X client services applications to remote users (running their own X servers) on other computers somewhere on my LAN such as running on a PC with Linux or maybe another Mac with XonX (I do not want people attaching a VGA monitor and keyboard to the Xserve). Thus, this is a classic distributed server-client X scenario, whereby a person could access an X application provided by the Xserve on his/her desktop.Usually each client machine would run their own X server and also their own window manager or desktop environment like gnome or kde. Only individual X clients that are not installed everywhere would run on the xserve. In principle, you could run a "naked" X server on the client and run the window managers or desktop environments on the Xserve, but this would be a huge waste of bandwidth and of CPU power and probably not a pleasant experience.
If I want the Xserve to be able to supply each user logging into the Xserve with their own environment, is it then best to use the Fink xfree86 threaded packages and the xfree86-server package (instead of the xfree86-rootless)?
Again, nothing to do with threaded vs non-threaded and rootless vs server.
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Martin
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