Radical idea for X-modmap problem.
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 08:32:48 PDT 2009
2009/7/27 Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org>:
> walt wrote:
>> Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many
>> people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was
>> designed to be used. Seems to introduce a great deal of confusing
>> complexity for features many of us never use.
> Actually, quite a lot. E.g. HP and others sell thin clients in
> commercial (and engineering) settings. And LTSP is quite popular in the
> developing world for more general desktop use. Extrapolating yourself
> to the world is fraught with difficulties...
And things like support for multiple video cards suddenly going away,
because the devs weren't thinking outside the case of a Linux
workstation with one screen.
What other functionality in X isn't used in the "single screen Linux
workstation" case and could do with conscious awareness so it isn't
inadvertently broken?
- d.
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