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| bio | website | blogs.oracle.com/alanc |
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| location | California | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
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Software engineer at Sun Oracle working on the X Window System for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux. Active member of the X.Org community.
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Dec 16 |
answered | Can't register or update Solaris 11 Express |
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Dec 16 |
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Missing Xutf8LookupString call in Solaris 10 Yes, Solaris 11 is building on the sources from OpenSolaris and has the X11R7 versions of the X libraries which include this function, not the older X11R6.6 ones that were found in Solaris 10. |
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Dec 15 |
answered | Missing Xutf8LookupString call in Solaris 10 |
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Dec 15 |
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What is Wayland? Mac OS X didn't abandon X, as it was never there to begin with - they actually added it in later releases, but also as an option on top of their core display system for displaying X applications. Their core display system is Quartz - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_%28graphics_layer%29 and for a comparison to X at the time developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid=6734612 . |
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Dec 13 |
answered | What is Wayland? |
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Dec 10 |
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[LFS] What is the most compatible tiny X server? XFree86 hasn't been updated in a long time, and doesn't support most recent hardware. |
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Nov 28 |
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What is the difference between X and XFree? Before X.Org the reference implemenation came from The Open Group, and before that the X Consortium. They provided X servers for a variety of Unix platforms and workstation vendors, including in some versions the XFree86 server for BSD & Linux distros. |
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Nov 27 |
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Xorg Server Failing to Startup The "vesa" and "fbdev" modules listed are Xorg server modules, not kernel modules. They are .so files found in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and are the fallbacks Xorg automatically tries if the specific driver module for your screen can't be loaded. |
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Nov 23 |
answered | Disable Composite without restarting X |
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Nov 21 |
answered | Xorg partially working for a font error |
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Nov 16 |
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What is the difference between X and XFree? XFree86 was never the reference implementation, just the one that virtually all Linux & BSD distros shipped since it had far more drivers for x86 systems than the MIT/X Consortium/Open Group sample implementation. |
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Nov 11 |
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Multi-monitor Xorg nVidia on Ubuntu 10.10 without root? Configure TwinView in the nvidia-settings gui as normal, then choose the last item in the left column, nvidia-settings Configuration, and on that tab click the Save Current Configuration button to create ~/.nvidia-settings-rc |
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Nov 10 |
answered | Multi-monitor Xorg nVidia on Ubuntu 10.10 without root? |
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Nov 3 |
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Getting the number and names of windows in Xvfb Well, I did when I modified xwininfo to use xcb, but that was as much to serve as an xcb example & test code as for the actual benefits. blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/porting_xwininfo_to_xcb has a much longer explanation than I can provide here. |
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Nov 3 |
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Getting the number and names of windows in Xvfb You could call XQueryTree yourself, as the older versions of xwininfo do, or the xcb equivalents as the new versions do. |
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Nov 3 |
answered | Getting the number and names of windows in Xvfb |
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Oct 20 |
answered | How to install xfontsel on Fedora 13? Any alternative? |
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Oct 10 |
answered | Using many monitors (4+) in linux |
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Oct 1 |
answered | Where do X error messages go? |
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Oct 1 |
answered | Sharing an X server (session) across computers |
