moving rootless out of the server

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Thu Nov 10 17:59:05 PST 2011


On 11/10/11, Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/10/11 23:40, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> I wonder how much effort it would be to write a xf86-video-vnc that runs
>> on xfree86 ddx.

That would be interesting to try, and there's some library out there
for quickly building a VNC server into an arbitrary app. Or Alan's
suggestion;

> xf4vnc already does. Just use the xf86-video-dummy driver and you have a
> standalone setup.

Or use a modern implementation like x11vnc that uses COMPOSITE so it
doesn't need any server-side code at all. :-) That's the approach
we're trying to adopt in this new project.

Jamey


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