Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> said:

> 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

It seems we got our first "victim" of that new change. :)

> 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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>          -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>           Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
> 


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