[Fwd: Ubuntu missed a needed ability in the Terminal Server Client package]

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 8 23:52:07 CDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:39:09PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Matt, we should probably seed xnest to live.  Although I didn't think
> they had XDMCP auth compiled in, but rather explicitly compiled
> *out* ...

I took a quick look at it, and it costs us a non-trivial amount of space on
the CDs (1M deb, 3M of installed data)...given that XDMCP isn't a very
common desktop use case, it's not an obvious call, but I'm willing to
consider it.  If we're going to bundle it, we might as well put it in
desktop, so that both installed and live systems benefit.

This is the only request of this type that I've heard, though, and I
remember we considered xnest some time ago for desktop and decided against
it...

What's up with this, btw:

"Use of the Xephyr X server instead of Xnest is recommended."


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 - mdz



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