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Xdummy standalone and packaging #10
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Posted an RFC to the xorg list, includes pointers to some patches which can be used to generate a |
There are now binary packages available here (fedora, centos, debian, ubuntu) To test that your Xorg supports the new non-root options, run:
Note: you must ensure that Xorg is not suid.
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You can help get this moving by testing the packages (or building from source with the patch) and providing " |
... or " Please help get this merge with a quick test (there are binary packages built - so it doesn't take long...) |
The changes have been merged upstream in commit ead968a4300c0adeff89b9886e888b6d284c75cc
Starting with soon-to-be-released 1.12 |
xf86-video-dummy |
For more information on Xdummy, see the top-level page: Xdummy |
2012-06-22 08:43:38: antoine uploaded file
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2012-06-22 08:43:52: antoine uploaded file
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2012-06-22 08:46:35: antoine uploaded file
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Added Xdummy packages for |
As of r1286 (+ fix in r1295), we install an This works for recent Debian / Ubuntu but not for Fedora/CentOS as those ship with a suid |
We could provide support for Xdummy on Fedora 17 (and others with suid-only binaries) by copying the
I have filed a bug with Fedora asking for a non-suid Xorg to be installed. |
r1549 adds support for suid Xorg installations (Fedora, etc) |
More Xdummy work now in #186 |
The solution of copying /usr/bin/Xorg does not work with gentoo because the executable is installed as -rws--x--x. If I'm not mistaken this is a common practice, ie to make root suid executables not readable by anybody else. Gentoo does it automatically for all such executables. |
Looks like there may be some useful randr changes coming to Xvfb (maybe in Xorg 1.14?): It will be a while before this is shipped in any distro though. |
There are a number of issues that can only be solved by having a proper supported Xvfb server with modern extension support (randr, etc), ie: #1, #2 (and potentially others - original winswitch ticket)
Although this is not strictly an Xpra thing, and is unlikely to live in the this xpra source repository, it is best to record this somewhere.
There are number of tasks:
All the info should now be here: Xdummy]
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