Xephyr -geometry patch

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Mar 10 09:03:39 PDT 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:53:26 +0000 (UTC)
> Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen <chithanh at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>> davor emard <davoremard <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I managed to compile upstream fresh git and tried to
>>> apply a -geometry patch that last year was supposed to
>>> be included in the git but it isn't.
>> The Xephyr maintainer has rejected the -geometry patch because he fears that it
>> will "pollute Xephyr's intended use case and users." See
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12221
> 
> So fork the project. End of problem.

You wouldn't even have to fork far - just make a new multiseat
directory next to ephyr & the other backends in the kdrive
directory - X.Org hasn't said that we won't allow it in our tree.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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