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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM, David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] |
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> Cairo XCB: |
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> >I have seen messages similar to these: |
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> > * Messages for package x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10: |
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> > * You have enabled the Cairo XCB backend which is used only by |
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> > * a select few apps. The Cairo XCB backend is presently |
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> > * un-maintained and needs a lot of work to get it caught up |
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> > * to the Xrender and Xlib backends, which are the backends used |
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> > * by most applications. See: |
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> > * http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html |
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> [snip] |
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> >which means that it's the default. What should I do with it, wait |
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> >until the default profile gets rid of it, or do something different? |
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> My take is that the warning is against writing new applications that |
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> might use the XCB back-end. Unless you are writing expressly X Window |
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> (i.e. low level) applications, just ignore it. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Dave [RLU #314465] |
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> dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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I put -xcb in the USE variable of /etc/make.conf, and did an emerge -aDNvu. |
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Everything works, |
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and cairo no longer complains. Ignoring it would probably have worked for |
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me too, but it would have |
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left me worrying. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |