On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > As a non-Xorg DDX maintainer, several quick questions that jump to mind: > > 1. Will Xorg even work on Cygwin/MinGW? (I would ask the same of OS X, but > as the Xquartz maintainer I suppose you know what you are doing.) Even if it > does, I see already it would take some serious patching to build due to the > module-based architecture, which I would be willing to work on.
Ah, that's a good point. Jeremy took care of the issues with running Xorg on OS X during the 1.12 cycle, but that needs to happen for Windows too. I'm hopeful that at least some of the work he did will make that job easier. > 2. XWin must still provide the /usr/bin/X symlink on Cygwin/MinGW. Seems like a packaging issue, not an upstream issue, so I don't think that'll be a problem? However, our capstone project that just finished was a start toward replacing the XQuartz DDX with a stock Xorg server and a special client, and I'm hoping that XWin can go the same direction. The special client acts something like a compositing window manager. It's pretty alpha right now, but proves the concept nicely on OS X. It was designed to have a portable core library shared by several applications, one for each native window system (say, OS X, Windows, and Wayland). Now would be a great time to start generalizing to other window systems. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcwm/ > 3. We would definitely need the wrapper scripts mentioned by Alan to replace > the removed DDXs. Probably worth having those on any platform, really. Jamey _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel