noob question on Generic Event Extension
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Aug 9 22:26:23 PDT 2011
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:01:09PM -0700, Dhoti Walla wrote:
> I downloaded xorg-server-1.9.3 and this has XGE.
> But I'm also building xorg-server-X11R7.1-1.1.0 (I don't know what this
> translates to in terms of 1.xx version) and this does not seem to have
> XGE, or is not building it by default. I want to get XGE working on
> this version because I want to use it with XRDP for remote desktop.
> BTW, I'm very happy to be conversing with the author of XGE :-)
X11R7.1 was released in 2006, well before XGE. It comes with server 1.1.0,
we're now up to 1.10.3. I recommend using that one, you'll run into all
sorts of issues otherwise (unless everything else on your box is from 2006
too).
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/x11r75-released-but-what-is-it.html might
be worth reading too.
Cheers,
Peter
> thanks
> Dhoti
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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