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 things > than silliness. I haven't run into any particular bugs in Xvfb (well, > except for not supporting RandR), so I didn't realize Xvnc was better > maintained, but if so...
The 90% of Xvfb code that's shared with Xorg is well maintained, the Xvfb ddx layer itself doesn't get that much attention. As for Xvnc, it depends on which Xvnc you use - RealVNC's is basically unmaintained now, but TigerVNC seems to be doing well for a new project, and TightVNC & TurboVNC are still alive as well. > Alan: Is there any way for a regular user to spawn a headless Xorg > process using those modules? Reading the man page did not give me much > hope, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something (e.g., Xorg -showopts > just segfaults on my machine). Unfortunately, choosing which modules to load is restricted to root, since Xorg is setuid root, so a admin would have to set it up for them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg