On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 06:50 -0800, milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: > > You forgot to volunteer to maintain them - not that I find > > you believable. The idea that anyone uses PEX is rather > > implausible. > > The number of apps which PEX, MIT_SUNDRY, and Ximage is probably a > rather small number but certainly there have been apps written to use > it. As for Xfree86-misc, I have heard that some modern screensavers > use it to provide some feature that makes the screensaver work in a > better manner and there has been concern over the disruption in > useability this will cause. xscreensaver uses this extension. So yes > removing it is a really bad idea.
Just to pick on the factual inaccuracy here: xscreensaver used xf86misc to disable your ability to hit control-alt-kpmultiply and -kpdivide to (respectively) kill or break the grab of the screensaver, since this would effectively allow you to unlock the session without a password. Since xf86misc has been removed, these key combos are no longer treated specially by the server, so there's no reason for the screensaver to need to turn them off. xscreensaver _would_ complain if it was built with xf86misc support but run against a server that didn't have it, but that was always a bug, and has been fixed in newer releases. (It would still behave correctly, you'd just get spurious warning messages.) - ajax
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