Xephyr -geometry patch

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at c3sl.ufpr.br
Sun Mar 9 12:58:07 PDT 2008


Alan Cox escreveu:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:53:26 +0000 (UTC)
> Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen <chithanh at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>> davor emard <davoremard <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I managed to compile upstream fresh git and tried to
>>> apply a -geometry patch that last year was supposed to
>>> be included in the git but it isn't.
>> The Xephyr maintainer has rejected the -geometry patch because he fears that it
>> will "pollute Xephyr's intended use case and users." See
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12221
> 
> So fork the project. End of problem.
> 
> Alan

Fork the project tends to also fork developers. This is what motivated 
me to not build another separated DDX for multiseat.

(and I think no one judges sane to fork Xephyr just because Matthew 
Allum doesn't want a simple -geometry there. So sad)


Cheers,

-- 
Tiago Vignatti
C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre
www.c3sl.ufpr.br



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