dlloader is now the default

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Thu Feb 17 03:03:30 PST 2005


Roland Mainz wrote:
>>Presumably, once /usr/X11R6 goes away, that will migrate to something
>>like /usr/lib/xorg.  I believe there's a ModulePath imake variable for this.
>>
>>I wasn't aware Xprint was a dynamic DDX.
> 
> 
> Xprt isn't but HP/UX has support for loading Xprint modules into their
> main Xserver (there the term "unified Xserver" comes from - it means an
> unified video/print Xserver). At some point our plans are to get rid of
> Xprt (to be more correct: Xprt will still be there for embedding (as
> it's footprint is very low) and for those people who want a print-only
> Xserver) and integrate print support into the "Xorg" server. The patch
> for that is already there but it still needs little bit adjustments to
> allow that both Xorg and Xprt server can be build at the same time.

Please make sure this support is compile-time optional, so it
can be disabled by distributions that choose not to ship/support
Xprint.



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