[PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Mar 27 10:53:35 PDT 2012


On 03/27/12 10:46 AM, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> You're probably thinking of the old X VNC servers that hacked up the
> server source tree. I believe those have been abandoned, but certainly
> this proposed change won't hurt them any more than they already have
> been.

TigerVNC is alive and well, shipping both Xvnc standalone server and
a vnc.so loadable module for Xorg, neither of which should be broken
by this change.   It may be possible to eventually replace Xvnc with a
Xorg server that loads the vnc module with the dummy video driver and
some sort of appropriate input driver (I don't think void will cut it,
nor running without input) - but given the GPL license on that code,
I'm happiest keeping Xvnc as a completely separate binary.

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