On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >> So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg > >> command line and it works! > > > > wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... > > well well. :) > > It was only added a few months ago: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1029 > > Xwayland 23.1 was the first stable release to ship it - on the Xorg > side I don't think it's in any stable release yet, just the git repo. It sounds like there needs to be a clearer error message produced, given the amount of hassle it's taken to identify this problem. I'm not sure whether the server or the client ought to report it explicitly, but I guess it would be a smaller change to ensure that a server with the new feature logged any failures that it caught/caused?