Guest netstar Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 xserver.freedesktop.org is a testing ground for future technologies to be incorporated into the X.org server. You can expect in time to see many improvements to the server, including full transparency and hardware acceleration. Work on opengl extensions is also in progress but don't hold your breath just yet. For transparency to be usable hardware acceleration really needs to be incorporated into X.org and luckily this is one of their next primary goals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 (edited) Thanks for the info, netstar. Do you have any info on their shedule ? (Do you think it will be in mdk 10.2 or may be 11 ?) Opengl extensions are interesting. Will this make it possible to have 3d effect on the windows ? What about vector graphics ? I thought that a long term goal of desktop environments were to become full vector scalable. Edited June 23, 2004 by GodFlesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 well, maybe a little help is needed, as I run the script i get this error message about 30 seconds into it: automake: Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support EXTRA_DIST being defined conditionally Makefile.am:50: invalid unused variable name: 'nodist_libXdmcp_la_SOURCES' autoreconf-2.5x: automake failed with exit status: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Word to the wise, even though your machine may say that automake is installed it may not be the right version. I checked before starting the script and it said it was installed. Thats why I didnt understand the error. I needed 1.7 according to freedesktop's page. I had 1.4 installed. I would have figured that I was current and had at least 1.8 with running cooker. Guess I should stop assuming, got me in trouble at work once this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Ive gotten installed, now what. It seems to not have overwritten my X.org install from urpmi, which is a good thing. How do I get it to start with a window manager on top of it? I have tried with icewm and with KDE. gives this error message with the command : [jason@localhost jason] sudo /opt/fdo/bin/Xvesa :1 & starticewm -display :1 icewm-session: Can't open display: <none>. X must be running and $DISPLAY set. With this command I get this error message: [jason@localhost jason]$ sudo /opt/fdo/bin/Xvesa :1 & startkde -display :1 xset: unable to open display "" xsetroot: unable to open display '' xmodmap: unable to open display '' xmodmap: unable to open display '' startkde: Starting up... (magicdev:28723): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ksplash: cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 looks like X is not starting. Have you try to just launch X ? Seem to be a problem with the DISPLAY variable Are you sure opt/fdo/bin/Xvesa :1 is enough to lauch X.org? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 is enough to lauch X.org? it's not X.org, it's freedesktop.org Xserver (or xfdo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 yeah X is starting I get a grey mesh background with an X mouse cursor. I just get no window manager with either command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 no ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 ksplash: cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. hummmm may be the this X server doesn't set $DISPLAY like the old ones... i'm not competent enough in X to help you, i'm affraid ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 export $DISPLAY= :1 ? like [root@localhost xbkup]# echo $PATH /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: /root/bin [root@localhost xbkup]# echo $HOME /root [root@localhost xbkup]# echo $DISPLAY :0.0 [root@localhost xbkup]# printenv | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=:0.0 [root@localhost xbkup]# [edited by spinynorman to fit margins] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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