moving rootless out of the server

[Alan Hourihane]

On 11/10/11 23:40, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 02:44:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>> Just to let you all know: Getting students to build xf86-video-nested
>> worked out well, so we're starting another X-related PSU Capstone
>> project. This time Jeremy is joining Josh and me as project sponsors.
>>
>> The goal this time around is to replace the XQuartz DDX. We'll run the
>> stock xfree86 DDX (though Jeremy's patches to make it run in OS X aren't
>> all merged yet, I think?) with a video-dummy driver.
>>
>> The students' task is to replace the functionality currently provided by
>> the server's generic rootless layer and the input and rendering support
>> provided by XQuartz, which we're asking them to do by writing a
>> compositing window manager that sucks window contents out of the server
>> and blits them into native windows. Similarly, for the initial
>> implementation they'll use XTest to inject input from native sources
>> into the server.
>>
>> We hope that the resulting client code can be shared with other
>> platforms, so future work may include replacing XWin with a Windows
>> version of the same client. It may also be useful to build versions on
>> Weyland or another X server. The latter would be different from Xnest
>> because it's rootless, which we don't currently have for X nested in X.
>>
>> The students are just starting to gather requirements this week. If all
>> goes well, their project should complete in late March.
> I wonder how much effort it would be to write a xf86-video-vnc that runs on
> xfree86 ddx.
>
xf4vnc already does. Just use the xf86-video-dummy driver and you have a
standalone setup.

Otherwise you can use the vnc.so with any graphics driver.

Alan.