Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Jul 23 21:14:37 UTC 2023


On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>> So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg command line
>> and it works!
> 
> wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... well well. :)

It was only added a few months ago:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1029

Xwayland 23.1 was the first stable release to ship it - on the Xorg side
I don't think it's in any stable release yet, just the git repo.

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