noob question on Generic Event Extension

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:01:09PM -0700, Dhoti Walla wrote:
>    I downloaded xorg-server-1.9.3 and this has XGE.
>    But I'm also building xorg-server-X11R7.1-1.1.0 (I don't know what this
>    translates to in terms of 1.xx version) and this does not seem to have
>    XGE, or is not building it by default. I want to get XGE working on
>    this version because I want to use it with XRDP for remote desktop.
>    BTW, I'm very happy to be conversing with the author of XGE :-)

X11R7.1 was released in 2006, well before XGE. It comes with server 1.1.0,
we're now up to 1.10.3. I recommend using that one, you'll run into all
sorts of issues otherwise (unless everything else on your box is from 2006
too).

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/x11r75-released-but-what-is-it.html might
be worth reading too.

Cheers,
  Peter

>    thanks
>    Dhoti
>    Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:15:19PM -0700, Dhoti Walla wrote:
> 
> 
>    Hi Peter,
>    thank you for your response.
>    On my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop I get this:
>    strings /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 | grep -i generic
>    Generic Event Extension
>    Generic Event Extension
>    But when I run the same command on the X11 that I built, I don't get
>    the same output
>    elku at chutney:~$ strings /opt/X11rdp/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 | grep -i
>    generic
>    elku at chutney:~$
>    Also, when I run xdpyinfo on my Ubuntu desktop, I get this
>    elku at chutney:~$ xdpyinfo | grep -i generic
>        Generic Event Extension
>    but on the X11 that I built, I get nothing again.
>    This is what makes me assume that GE is not being built on my X11.
> 
> 
> what version are you building? there is no configure option to disable XGE.
> unless you're building pre-1.6 (I think) XGE should always be there.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter
> 
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