Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#370: RPM package: nx-libs lacks Xinerama support

From: Mike Gabriel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:37:29 +0000

Hi Orion,

On  Mo 16 Dez 2013 03:14:02 CET, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> On 12/14/2013 02:00 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> Package: nx-libs
>> Severity: important
>> Tag: rpm-package
>>
>> The current RPMs built from nx-libs HEAD lack Xinerama support because
>> of missing symlinks. The links should be created like below when the
>> package libNX_Xinerama gets installed:
>>
>> mike@minobo:/usr/lib64/nx/X11$ ls Xinerama/ -al
>> insgesamt 16
>> libNX_X11.so.6 -> /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
>> libNX_Xext.so.6 -> /usr/lib64//libXext.so.6
>> libXinerama.so -> ../libNX_Xinerama.so
>> libXinerama.so.1 -> ../libNX_Xinerama.so.1
>
> Shouldn't NX be taught to just use libXinerama.so.1 directly instead?

The libNX_Xinerama.so.1 is very much different from libXinerama.so as  
it retrieves its data about number of screens and screen resolutions  
from a file (and not from hardware).

Scan for NX_XINERAMA_CONF in [1] for details.

Mike

[1]  
http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/202_nx-X11_enable-xinerama.full.patch
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