[Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

[Jim Gettys]

Wel, the history is like this:

XSetScreenSaver and friends are original to the X11 core protocol, and
have no support for user space screen savers at all.  The screen saver
extension "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" to do so came along a few years later.  It
might have been nice if it made explicit provision for this case, but it
didn't, I don't believe.
				- Jim


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:32 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Feb 14, 06 15:22:24 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > On Feb 14, 06 14:50:06 -0500, Mattias Hopf wrote:
> > > Xtst is a local only "solution".  As such, it doesn't help LTSP.
> > >IMHO it is not a solution at all. It is an ugly workaround, a kludge.
> > 
> > I did put "solution" in quotes, for a reason...  I guess I'm being too
> > subtle: let's call a spade a shovel then: "gross hack".
> 
> :) I did get it, but I just *had* to emphasise it :)
> 
> About XSetScreenSaver: I don't remember what, but there were issues.
> The man page reads like  there was never support for application space
> screen servers. 
> I'm sure Jim remembers this better than I do.
> 
> Matthias
>