Re: howto get the XkbLayout with the C language

2004-03-09 Thread Ivan Pascal
Hi, I've just tried to get the XkbLayout in my program, but It doesn't work for me at this moment. I caught the event, when the user changes the keyboard layout. But I cannot get the layout symbolic name as is in my XF86Config like us or cz or de or whatever I have there in the

[cigar2win@verizon.net: [Support] XF86 4.4]

2004-03-09 Thread Anton Farygin
Greetings. What is it ? All our distro don't include XFree86 4.4. Rgds, Anton Farygin ALT Linux - Forwarded message from goe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:46:28 -0500 From: goe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Support] XF86 4.4 X-Original-To: [EMAIL

Re: DGA - the future?

2004-03-09 Thread Tim Roberts
James Wright wrote: It doesn't seem all that long ago that DGA V2 was added, why was it ever introduced if it causes grief for the driver writers? What where the original intentions of including the DGA extension into Xfree86? Same as DirectDraw in Windows. Some app writers want to own the

Re: DGA - the future?

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, James Wright wrote: It doesn't seem all that long ago that DGA V2 was added, why was it ever introduced if it causes grief for the driver writers? What where the original intentions of including the DGA extension into Xfree86? DGA2 was added five years ago, and

Re: howto get the XkbLayout with the C language

2004-03-09 Thread Tom Macek
Thanks for answer, but I'm a C/C++ newbie. Can you help me a bit more? I already have this code in my event (see below): void Toolbar::redrawKBLabel(bool redraw) { XkbStateRec xkbState; XkbDescPtr my_xkb_desc; int my_xkb_group; my_xkb_desc = XkbGetMap(display, 0, XkbUseCoreKbd);

Re: DGA - the future?

2004-03-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
JWI'm just concerned that the DGA extension will be removed with JW no adequete replacement. The main issue with DGA seems to be the JW way it requires root privs and can write to other parts of JW memory. Can we not have some sort of /dev/dga device or is this JW not the place to ask ;) is

Re: Halted progress on XFree86 ffb driver for Solaris/SPARC

2004-03-09 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Matt Prazak wrote: I think I can conclude, now, that there is insufficient documentation available for the Solaris ffb kernel driver to make XFree86 work with it. After some more searching, I found a couple newsgroup postings from 1997/1998 timeframe of other people

Re: bug repport: X crash!

2004-03-09 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, JORGE GARCIA GALLARDO wrote: XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System 3.3.6 isn't supported anymore. So upgrade and quit spamming out lists. Marc. +--+---+ | Marc Aurele La France | work:

Re: bug repport: X crash!

2004-03-09 Thread georgina o. economou
Please use the web pages before posting. You will save yourself a lot of time. In particular: http://www.xfree86.org/releaseplans.html is where this is stated quite plainly: The 3.3.x series has been officially discontinued because of lack of developer interest so no further updates or