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Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 14, 2013 17:31 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Bad NIH, good NIH by Serge
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

Can you provide a reference to X specification about subpixel order and its relationship with display transformation? And not for xrandr, please.


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Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 15, 2013 7:15 UTC (Fri) by Serge (guest, #84957) [Link]

> Can you provide a reference to X specification about subpixel order and its relationship with display transformation? And not for xrandr, please.

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R6.9.0/doc/render-protocol.txt

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Posted Mar 15, 2013 16:04 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

That's an extension, not the X protocol itself.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013 0:15 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Yes, that's true. It also doesn't matter at all.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013 7:22 UTC (Sat) by Serge (guest, #84957) [Link]

> That's an extension, not the X protocol itself.

In X world extensions are part of the X11 protocol. For example this particular extension is part of X11R6.9, you can see that in its URL.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013 9:08 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

But it's not a part of my X server.

Waaahhhh! X encourages fragmentation!

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