October 2008 Archives

The thing I'd like to see working which is the reason I started looking at it in the first place

• RANDR extension support integrated with the native Windows WM_DISPLAYCHANGE message so X knows and does the right thing when the native Windows virtual desktop changes size due to a resolution change or monitor addition/removal

Other things

• Composite does strange things at the moment
• More investigation of why the 'smart scheduler' causes cygwin problems: SIGALRM every 20ms causes 'sporadic accept() failed' and deadlocks in multiwindow mode. Fixed/better with Cygwin 1.7.x?
• Fix building with multwindow with external window manager mode.  This depends on the rootless extension, which depends on Apple's Xplugin.h :D
• Icon conversion could use a bit more work, scaling overlarge NET_WM_ICON icons down to the right size, improving icon conversion if we could find a simple way to use a bilinear filter  Some windows still have no icon found by us, although native WMs can find them.
  
• Probably should change explicit use of GetTickCount() in event generation in xwin/ to use GetTimeInMillis(). This should make things consistent if we ever wanted to use the gettimeofday() clock
  
• Maybe get some patches folded back into upstream
  

I've been spending a bit of time recently trying to get an up to date version of the Cygwin/X X server building and working (the current version in Cygwin is a R6.9 vintage monolithic X :()

Patch-set to build X.org server 1.5.2 for cygwin
Patch-set for the current X.org git

A couple of resource were very useful: The Xming server is the same server built for mingw, and some patches for the 1.4 X server

A built version is now in cygwin ports

Being used to doing graphical merge using ClearCase , I didn't want to have to fiddle around resolving a subversion merge by opening a bunch of files. Bizarrely I couldn't find a clear description of how to set this up, perhaps because the specifics have changed between subversion versions, so for subversion 1.5:

add in ~/.subversion/config
merge-tool-cmd = svndiffwrapper

and create svndiffwraper, somewhere on your path, a shell script which contains:

#!/bin/sh
kdiff3 -m $1 $2 $3 -o $4 1>&2

Subsequent svn merge will offer you the option to (l)aunch the external program do to the merge, which will fire up kdiff3

(Obviously you can use a different tool to kdiff3, but that was the best 3-way graphical merge tool I found in a quick search)