[PATCH 00/19] porting Xephyr to xcb

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Oct 20 10:10:15 PDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 19:00:32 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> I've been trying to port Xephyr to xcb instead of Xlib, with an eye to
> getting that upstream for 1.10, so would appreciate some eyes on it :)
> 
> I've split up the change in several commits (using libX11-xcb in the
> intermediate ones) so I could test changes independently, but I'm happy
> to squash it all together if people think it'd be better.
> 
> I've tested Xv, but not DRI1/GLX since I don't have such a setup
> anymore.
> 
> The removal of the unused proxy stuff is independent so could be merged
> separately.
> 
> The transformation is mostly straightforward.  One note though: Xephyr
> used XCheckTypedWindowEvent to bundle expose event processing; I don't
> know how to do that with xcb, so it's removed.
> 
I updated the branch with Mikhail's Reviewed-by and used Peter's
suggestion for the expose events.

I'll reply to this message with the updated series, which is also
available at git://people.freedesktop.org/~jcristau/xserver xephyr-xcb

Cheers,
Julien


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