Current tinderbox regression (xserver)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:45:28PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:26 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Yeah, Xnest and Xdmx are broken, sorry.  That being said, we've talked a
> > lot about just deleting Xnest in favour of Xephyr: anyone got any
> > compelling counter-arguments?
> 
> Pretty sure the compelling argument was that Xnest would pass through
> requests so that you got acceleration from your host server.  Except
> that it doesn't support modern extensions, so you get no acceleration
> and clients shaking their fists at you instead.  I haven't heard of any
> use for it as a debugging platform, either.
> 
> Nuke away, in my opinion.

Yep.  Just got to add full Xnest command-line compatibility, then it's
gone.

Cheers,
Daniel
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