Large scale X

2009-05-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, If i have 1000 user accounts on one accounts server and dozens of X apps on another apps server, how can a user start an X app when they don't have an account on the apps server? (no user accounts at all on apps server) I'm thinking of traditional X where the users use dumb X terminals, and

Re: RandR support for Xvfb

2009-05-27 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Peter Åstrand wrote: RandR support has been added to the Xvnc implementation in the TigerVNC project (also included in Fedora 11). Since Xvfb has so many bugs, I believe Xvnc is a better choice in most cases.

Re: It's useful to have a working X server if a client holds a grab when it triggers a debugger breakpoint

2009-05-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:50 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: The main benefit of a grab in the use of menus is that you will get the next event regardless of where it occurs. This is what makes the menu disappear when you click elsewhere. If the application didn't grab, the menu could only

Re: RandR support for Xvfb

2009-05-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nathaniel Smith wrote: I believe Antoine was asking with an eye towards use with 'xpra', which is a sort of rootless VNC equivalent that plays some tricks with compositing on a headless server (http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra). So using Xvnc would be somewhat silly, but then, there are worse

Re: up-arrow key not working again.

2009-05-27 Thread dolphinling
Robin Cook wrote: I upgraded xorg-server to 1.6.1 and now the up-arrow key is not working the way it is supposed to. When I hit it in gnome it causes the screenshot applet to pop up. I have this same problem, but *only* when running inside an Xnest. I'm running xorg-server 1.6.1.901. I have

Xorg resolution with VGA Switch

2009-05-27 Thread Aurélien PROVIN
Hi, I bought a VGA switch to switch some devices on one monitor. But resolution of my X session is limited to 1024x768 instead of 1920x1200. If I hotplug the switch when the X session is started in 1920x1200, it works. Could you help me ? Regards, Aurelien the vga switch:

Re: Xorg resolution with VGA Switch

2009-05-27 Thread Aaron Plattner
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:49:18AM -0700, Aurélien PROVIN wrote: Hi, I bought a VGA switch to switch some devices on one monitor. But resolution of my X session is limited to 1024x768 instead of 1920x1200. If I hotplug the switch when the X session is started in 1920x1200, it works. It

us-intl-unicode: XKB us(intl) variant using Unicode combining characters

2009-05-27 Thread Leonardo Boiko
I just wrote this in half an hour, thought someone might be interested. It’s a keyboard layout similar to us(altgr-intl), but employing Unicode combining characters instead of X compose sequences. http://github.com/leoboiko/us-intl-unicode -- Leonardo Boiko http://namakajiri.net

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdrive: add protocol mouse option

2009-05-27 Thread Olivier Blin
Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net writes: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: kdrive probes a lot of PS/2 protocols for the mouse device, which makes the mouse unusable for some seconds after X startup. This new protocol option allows forcing the mouse

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kdrive: do not undef DEBUG macro in mouse driver

2009-05-27 Thread Olivier Blin
Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net writes: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: The mouse driver had some code to unconditionnally disable debug, even if configured with --enable-debug. This adds back the mouse driver debug output when built with debug option.

[xf86-video-ati] crash with latest code from git (possibly radeon-rewrite related)

2009-05-27 Thread Lowell Alleman
I've run into an X server crash with the latest radeon driver from git, packaged for Ubuntu Jaunty by Tormod Volden. I'm also using the radeon-rewrite mesa branch, which I have been using for a few weeks now, however this bug seems to be related to my recent upgrade of the xf86-video-ati driver.

Re: [xf86-video-ati] crash with latest code from git (possibly radeon-rewrite related)

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Lowell Alleman low...@allemansonline.com wrote: I've run into an X server crash with the latest radeon driver from git, packaged for Ubuntu Jaunty by Tormod Volden.  I'm also using the radeon-rewrite mesa branch, which I have been using for a few weeks now,

Re: Mod4 ignored?

2009-05-27 Thread xorg
Seriously, noone? Can't believe this is a difficult problem to solve. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: up-arrow key not working again.

2009-05-27 Thread Robin Cook
I have the AllowEmptyInput but not the AutoAddDevices. Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection The two option were what I was told to put in there and it was working on the previous version with the patch. Thanks CuZnDragon Robin Cook On Wed, 2009-05-27 at

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdrive: add protocol mouse option

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 15:30 +0200 schrieb Olivier Blin: kdrive probes a lot of PS/2 protocols for the mouse device, which makes the mouse unusable for some seconds after X startup. This new protocol option allows forcing the mouse protocol. It can be used this way: Xfbdev -mouse

Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Evgeny M. Zubok
I have made the first attempt to implement basic `Copy' and `Solid' EXA functions in xf86-video-s3, but soon came to intention that EXA support is not possible. Is there mistake in my thinking below? S3's Graphic Processor (S3 GP) is able to copy areas only in terms of coordinates, i. e. it can

Re: Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Evgeny M. Zubok evgeny.zu...@tochka.ru wrote: I have made the first attempt to implement basic `Copy' and `Solid' EXA functions in xf86-video-s3, but soon came to intention that EXA support is not possible. Is there mistake in my thinking below? S3's Graphic

Mod4 ignored?

2009-05-27 Thread xorg
Hello. I'm having a very strange problem with regards to the Mod4 key. Currently, it's mapped to the windows key: $ xmodmap -pm xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25),

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kdrive: add protocol mouse option

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:04:16PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net writes: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote: kdrive probes a lot of PS/2 protocols for the mouse device, which makes the mouse unusable for some seconds after X

Re: It's useful to have a working X server if a client holds a grab when it triggers a debugger breakpoint

2009-05-27 Thread David Campbell
Peter, Do you think that http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5e43cd28692bc05cac80f38b47104a26c0524385 can/should be backed out for the time being until an alternative solution to this matter becomes available, because with this change in place in the current server, there's

Re: Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ville Syrjälä syrj...@sci.fi wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:50:51PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Evgeny M. Zubok evgeny.zu...@tochka.ru wrote: I have made the first attempt to implement basic `Copy' and `Solid' EXA

Re: Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:50:51PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Evgeny M. Zubok evgeny.zu...@tochka.ru wrote: I have made the first attempt to implement basic `Copy' and `Solid' EXA functions in xf86-video-s3, but soon came to intention that EXA support is

Re: Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/05/27 18:34 (GMT-0400) Alex Deucher composed: ...the lack offscreen pixmaps would hurt performance. I'm just an observer whose only real interest is in seeing to it that dropping of any legacy support is not done casually. I can only wonder if anyone using a 12 year old legacy chip has

Re: It's useful to have a working X server if a client holds a grab when it triggers a debugger breakpoint

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:30:24AM +1000, David Campbell wrote: Do you think that http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5e43cd28692bc05cac80f38b47104a26c0524385 can/should be backed out for the time being until an alternative solution to this matter becomes available,

Re: Is there the possibility to support EXA for legacy S3 chips?

2009-05-27 Thread Maarten Maathuis
From a performance pov an accelerated shadow framebuffer arrangement is probably much faster. Assuming it has some dma capability. Maarten. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: up-arrow key not working again.

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 03:55:07PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote: I have the AllowEmptyInput but not the AutoAddDevices. Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection The two option were what I was told to put in there and it was working on the previous version

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-synaptics 1.1.2

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
One patch that should have made it into 1.1.1 but didn't. Jeremy's patch adds model-specific edges for appletouch touchpads in the same fashion as we already do for ALPS and synaptics pads. Jeremy Huddleston (1): Add model-specific edges for appletouch. Peter Hutterer (1): synaptics

Re: It's useful to have a working X server if a client holds a grab when it triggers a debugger breakpoint

2009-05-27 Thread Glynn Clements
Xavier Bestel wrote: The main benefit of a grab in the use of menus is that you will get the next event regardless of where it occurs. This is what makes the menu disappear when you click elsewhere. If the application didn't grab, the menu could only disappear by activating a menu item,