Re: A simpler description of wayland

2010-12-21 Thread Joakim Sindholt
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 20:43 -0500, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 12/22, Josh Leverette wrote: > > No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible > > with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking > > anyways. > > Yes, Wayland is a distinct project f

Re: A simpler description of wayland

2010-12-21 Thread Darxus
On 12/22, Josh Leverette wrote: > No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible > with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking > anyways. Yes, Wayland is a distinct project from X.org, but it, and all the work to make it possible, has been done by X d

Re: A simpler description of wayland

2010-12-21 Thread Josh Leverette
No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking anyways. On Dec 21, 2010, at 8:27 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > The X server contains lots and lots of crufty old code going back to the > 1980s that no

A simpler description of wayland

2010-12-21 Thread Darxus
The X server contains lots and lots of crufty old code going back to the 1980s that nobody uses and nobody (including the X developers) wants to maintain, but is required to claim to be an X server. One option is: 1) Move all the useful modern stuff out to the Linux kernel and separate librarie

Re: Wayland crash scenario

2010-12-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:08:51PM +0100, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > I was wondering whether we can find a better solution to the scenarios > where Wayland crashes. > You all know that for the X case, when it crashes, everything open is > lost, you need to re-login and you need to reopen your

Re: Wayland failed to create display

2010-12-21 Thread me
try disabling connection control "xhost +" and run it as root On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:13:32 -0800 (PST), magd0510 magd0510 wrote: Compiled the wayland successfully. When run client/flower under X, always get below error: failed to create display: Connection refused Segment fault gdb trace

Wayland failed to create display

2010-12-21 Thread magd0510 magd0510
Compiled the wayland successfully.  When run client/flower under X, always get below error: failed to create display: Connection refused Segment fault gdb traced the lt-flower into wayland-client.c 362        if (connect(display->fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, size) < 0) { This line failed to co