Re: what do you use for replacing all (or parts) of XFree86-clients?

Around 16 o'clock on Feb 3, "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:

> Where do you get your xset? xev? etc?

I'm just using binaries built from XFree86 source by my distribution; the
fd.o libraries are ABI compatible, so there's no real reason to recompile
them specially.

Medium term, I would like to get an autotooled version of xc/config so we 
can install enough imake stuff to make existing imake-based configurations 
work properly (including AC_PATH_XTRA).  I've tested that by constructing 
just a host.def file by hand with good results.

> But no link to it from http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Home . I may
> set myself up with a Twiki registration for this. Is it okay if I add it
> to that Software/Home page?

Please feel free.  I'm afraid I overlooked it when I set up xapps.

> Also, is there any download site for tar balls for these xapps?

No, none of those have been "released" yet.

> Also is there a fonts project for the XFree86 xc/fonts ?

I'm hoping to get a chance to address these soon -- I want convert them 
from .bdf format to .ttf and place all of the available pixel sizes for 
each face into a single file.  Juliusz Chroboczek has prepared the way by 
building a tool that creates appropriate .ttf files, and the existing 
FreeType backend in the Xfont library can read them without difficulty.

The FreeType backend already supports transcoding from Unicode to all of 
the national encodings represented in the bitmap fonts, so we can finally 
eliminate the duplication of font files.

I don't think any of this is a huge amount of work either; it's mostly a 
matter of taking the existing ttf conversion utility and doing a bunch of 
configuration and testing.

-keith