On 11/10/11 23:40, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 02:44:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote: >> Just to let you all know: Getting students to build xf86-video-nested >> worked out well, so we're starting another X-related PSU Capstone >> project. This time Jeremy is joining Josh and me as project sponsors. >> >> The goal this time around is to replace the XQuartz DDX. We'll run the >> stock xfree86 DDX (though Jeremy's patches to make it run in OS X aren't >> all merged yet, I think?) with a video-dummy driver. >> >> The students' task is to replace the functionality currently provided by >> the server's generic rootless layer and the input and rendering support >> provided by XQuartz, which we're asking them to do by writing a >> compositing window manager that sucks window contents out of the server >> and blits them into native windows. Similarly, for the initial >> implementation they'll use XTest to inject input from native sources >> into the server. >> >> We hope that the resulting client code can be shared with other >> platforms, so future work may include replacing XWin with a Windows >> version of the same client. It may also be useful to build versions on >> Weyland or another X server. The latter would be different from Xnest >> because it's rootless, which we don't currently have for X nested in X. >> >> The students are just starting to gather requirements this week. If all >> goes well, their project should complete in late March. > I wonder how much effort it would be to write a xf86-video-vnc that runs on > xfree86 ddx. > xf4vnc already does. Just use the xf86-video-dummy driver and you have a standalone setup.
Otherwise you can use the vnc.so with any graphics driver. Alan. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
