XC-MISC / X-Resource / core protocol extension proposal

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 9 14:44:27 PST 2009


Adam Jackson wrote:
> I can't think of anything obvious this would break.  There's a minor
> concern about what to do about the server's XID space, but (assuming
> xrestop isn't lying to me) the server is only holding 67 or so, so
> probably one block of whatever size is more than sufficient.

The biggest user I've seen of server-side XID's is the Xinerama per-screen
fake ids for every client allocated pixmap/gc/etc. and I could see those
using more than just one 64k block on a busy system with many heads.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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