Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:06:19 +0100 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: Henry Miller <hank@blackhole.com> Subject: Re: new port request: Xdmx Message-ID: <200503132206.19895.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <380-220053013174736734@blackhole.com> References: <380-220053013174736734@blackhole.com>
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On Sunday 13 of March 2005 18:47, Henry Miller wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to request that whoever does the x11 server ports for > FreeBSD add a port for Distributed Multihead X. Dmx seems like it > might fit my setup, so I'd like to try it, but I can't get it to > install manually. (I could, I suppose, but I'm afraid of wiping out > the rest of my setup just to make this one thing install) > > Some (out of date but still useful) instructions are at > http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ > DMZ is an option with x.org (I think Free86 too, but I use xor), see > the site.def file, in theory you just add a line to host.def. > > I played with compiling it manually, but I gave up eventually, in > part because the ports way of installing each part of X separately > (server, nestserver, clients) makes it hard to figure out what > options I need to install just the new parts. > > I think just a simple change to nestserver or the like copied to a > new port should do the trick. I think this is easy for someone who > understands how the X ports work to add. Ok, let's see if it's that easy :) Port skeleton: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/dmx/xorg-dmx.tar (untar it under /usr/ports/x11-servers/) Package for RELENG_5/i386: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/dmx/xorg-dmx-6.8.1.tbz Dejan
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