Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:10:49 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Joe Kelsey" <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.org discussion Message-ID: <opsafg8bzd9aq2h7@mezz> In-Reply-To: <1088632355.93277.4.camel@zircon> References: <40E3176E.40903@imagescape.com> <1088632355.93277.4.camel@zircon>
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:52:36 -0700, Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:41, Punahele Tannehill wrote: >> Having just scampered through a thread on questions@, I'm curious about >> people's >> opinions and experiences are with X.org system as compared to XFree86. >> Especially in terms of how it may or not affect future development of >> Gnome. > > I just replaced XFree86 with X.org. It took quite a bit of work, even > with the meta-port. I had major trouble with the meta-port due to > poorly=specified prerequisites and inability of portinstall to operate > on it. I have no problem here with pkgdb to replace XFree86 to xorg. > Since upgrading, several panel applets no longer work. The WindowList > and WorkspaceSwitcher applets no longer start up, instead giving some > sort of incomprehensible OAFID error which I have no idea how to fix. > This causes much frustration, as I rely on the Window List applet to > recover iconified applications, such as evolution. Therefore, I can no > longer iconify anything, leading to much frustration in my daily work. > > I assume that if I can ever solve the WindowList applet problem, then I > see no problem with X.org. I didn't test all applets and GNOME 2.6.x, but GNOME 2.7.x's WindowList and Workspace Switcher work fine here with xorg. I don't have any issue with GNOME 2.7.x and xorg so far. Also, I don't see any difference between XFree86 and xorg beside name and license. Cheers, Mezz > /Joe -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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