Minimizing X.org 6.8.1 (not KDrive) to meet specs

Torgeir Veimo torgeir at pobox.com
Thu Sep 23 13:36:28 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:23 -0400, Sergei Mutovkin wrote:
> I've just checked xdpyinfo and my "small" X11 has whole load of
> extensions: 28... Most of which for me mean absolutely nothing... and
> I have no idea how dependent X on those exensions....
> 
> Is there any list with description of know X extensions, so that I can
> decide what to leave and  what to remove?

Contrary to extensions in the sense you find them in mozilla firefox,
jedit etc, X extensions are more in the category of protocol- or
behaviour extensions of the X11 model and cannot be easily removed from
the current server implementation without breaking stuff or hampering
functionality or performance.

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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir at pobox.com>




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