XC-MISC / X-Resource / core protocol extension proposal

[Jeremy Y Uejio]

I think tcl/tk might have its own XID allocator.  That might need some 
investigation.

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/lib/tk/tk8.4.18/unix/tkUnixXId.c


				jeremy
				Solaris Desktop Sustaining

On 02/09/09 14:44, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> I can't think of anything obvious this would break.  There's a minor
>> concern about what to do about the server's XID space, but (assuming
>> xrestop isn't lying to me) the server is only holding 67 or so, so
>> probably one block of whatever size is more than sufficient.
> 
> The biggest user I've seen of server-side XID's is the Xinerama per-screen
> fake ids for every client allocated pixmap/gc/etc. and I could see those
> using more than just one 64k block on a busy system with many heads.
>