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On Monday 06 December 2004 18:05, Eric S. Johansson wrote: |
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> Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: |
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> > Hi ! |
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> > First questions .... |
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> > What do you want exactly ? Do you need X support or not ? |
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> apologies for not being clearer. What I want is only X11 client side |
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> support so I can build applications that use X11. Since it is a server |
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> and I will never run X11 server side, I don't want to spend the time or |
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> energy building the X11 server. case in point is Emacs. I don't want |
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> to be limited to what ever I can display via putty but wish to display |
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> Emacs sessions on my desktop X11 server. |
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Lemme guess. You are building a server for thing clients otherwise the |
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statement above wouldn't make much sense. Alright, I will assume that. |
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The X applications still need all the X-related libs to link against. So you |
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better build the whole X. |
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> If it is impossible to split X11 into client and server packages, then I |
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> would need some help figuring out why it is dying on two security |
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> related functions. |
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So, what are those issues? |
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Uwe |
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Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: |
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If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. |
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http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) |
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