noob question on Generic Event Extension

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:15:19PM -0700, Dhoti Walla wrote:
>    Hi Peter,
>    thank you for your response.
>    On my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop I get this:
>    strings /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 | grep -i generic
>    Generic Event Extension
>    Generic Event Extension
>    But when I run the same command on the X11 that I built, I don't get
>    the same output
>    elku at chutney:~$ strings /opt/X11rdp/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 | grep -i
>    generic
>    elku at chutney:~$
>    Also, when I run xdpyinfo on my Ubuntu desktop, I get this
>    elku at chutney:~$ xdpyinfo | grep -i generic
>        Generic Event Extension
>    but on the X11 that I built, I get nothing again.
>    This is what makes me assume that GE is not being built on my X11.

what version are you building? there is no configure option to disable XGE.
unless you're building pre-1.6 (I think) XGE should always be there.

Cheers,
  Peter