Where are the minor X11 clients? xsetroot, xmodmap, xgamma, etc

Till Varoquaux till.varoquaux at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 03:11:57 CDT 2005


Might I just say that I feel glxinfo is a good tool, 
specially for opengl devellopers.
Plus a number of howto rely on it to help the user set up glx.
Regards,
Till

On 8/15/05, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:16PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > One wonders what became of the lesser X11 clients during the great xorg
> > repackaging. Of particular interest is xsetroot, whose current absence
> > in Breeze prevents vncserver from running. There are others such as
> > xmodmap, glxinfo, and xgamma that are also handy.
> 
> Most of the useful ones -- xmodmap, xgamma, glxinfo, xsetroot, etc, will
> creep back within the next week or so. The uninteresting ones -- xeyes,
> xedit, and possibly glxinfo (depending on how bitter I'm feeling) --
> will probably not return for breezy. If you have a pet X client you
> want to see in Breezy and it's not obvious that it's a totally core
> client that will have to be in Breezy, please let me know that you're
> interested in working on it and then get it into universe.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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