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

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Tue Mar 27 11:36:17 PDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 10:53 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: 
> 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.

X11vnc is different of TigerVNC 
URL         : http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
Summary     : VNC server for the current X11 session

-- 
Sérgio M. B.



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