LWN: Comments on "X11R7.5 has been released"

X11R7.5 has been released

ewan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:51:37 +0000

Is the reference to Windows support in the release announcement referring to Cygwin/X, or something else though?

X11R7.5 has been released

mattdm — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:09:33 +0000

The power-line control protocol predates the obsolete windowing system by a good 10 years. :)

Multi-card xrandr

crow — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:34:44 +0000

Does xrandr support multiple video cards yet? I'm stuck running an increasingly old release to support a triple-head configuration with two video cards because newer radeon drivers dropped xinerama support.

X11R7.5 has been released

copsewood — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:13:35 +0000

If you are looking for an X server to run on MS Windows you might want to have a look at Xming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming . I use Xming regularly in order to display the GUI of X applications (e.g. Konsole, Konqueror, Firefox, Gedit etc. on a Windows desktop. After starting Xming in multiwindow mode, I start Putty with the X forwarding flag set to login to the Linux desktop/application server, so I can run command lines on linux, which launch these GUI applications which display through the ssh connection on the MS-Windows desktop.

X11R7.5 has been released

mosfet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:40 +0000

Even Apple has joined the party with OS X. Maybe we need to open some X files?

X11R7.5 has been released

nix — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:20 +0000

That one actually did cause me confusion. I spent some time thinking people had somehow repurposed an obsolete remote display protocol for power control (who knows why they picked it, maybe they particularly liked extra roundtrips to the server over the mains? ;) )

X11R7.5 has been released

tzafrir — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:51:25 +0000

Not only that. There are those who use ancient 80-s technology (X10) for home automation. That's also a clear violation of well-established X marks :-)

X11R7.5 has been released

jzbiciak — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:27:59 +0000

The phrase "X-Windows" appears only in your post. Alan quite carefully called it "The X Window System" rather consistently. :-)

And as for having an X11 server on a Microsoft Windows box, that's been around for quite some time via Cygwin. (If you look closely, you'll see the screen shots are dated 2003, so this isn't something that's happened terribly recently.)

X11R7.5 has been released

pivot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:26:24 +0000

Just curious, doesn't the Direct X11 name infringe on the X11 name?

X11R7.5 has been released

jlmassir — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:58:58 +0000

X11 in windows?! News to me. Is it called X-Windows already?

X11R7.5 has been released

whot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:12:35 +0000

Alan also uploaded a consolidated changelog that lists each version for each package.

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/changelog.html

X11R7.5 has been released

ikm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:58:48 +0000

Thanks Carl, that would come in handy.

X11R7.5 has been released

cworth — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:22 +0000

It's got xserver 1.7.1

The only way to know is to click through to the releases directory:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/

Then you're a couple of clicks away from:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/src/xserver/

and there you can see an xorg-server-1.7.1.tar.gz file.

-Carl

X11R7.5 has been released

ikm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:41:29 +0000

Which version of the xorg-xserver does it include? And how could one tell in general?