[PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Tue Mar 27 11:42:35 PDT 2012


On 03/28/2012 01:36 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 10:53 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: 
>> On 03/27/12 10:46 AM, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> You're probably thinking of the old X VNC servers that hacked up the
>>> server source tree. I believe those have been abandoned, but certainly
>>> this proposed change won't hurt them any more than they already have
>>> been.
>>
>> TigerVNC is alive and well, shipping both Xvnc standalone server and
>> a vnc.so loadable module for Xorg, neither of which should be broken
>> by this change.   It may be possible to eventually replace Xvnc with a
>> Xorg server that loads the vnc module with the dummy video driver and
>> some sort of appropriate input driver (I don't think void will cut it,
>> nor running without input) - but given the GPL license on that code,
>> I'm happiest keeping Xvnc as a completely separate binary.
> 
> X11vnc is different of TigerVNC 
> URL         : http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
> Summary     : VNC server for the current X11 session

TigerVNC includes x0vncserver which does the same thing.


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