Comments: In-reply-to Ben Byer <email@hidden> message dated "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:56:54 -0800."
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> Is it a requirement that you use XDMCP? Most organizations have
> switched to using ssh to connect to a remote machine, and then
> launching applications through the ssh tunnel.
Look, the whole reason for X11 on Macs is to be compatible with
applications and business processes which have not yet drunk the
kool-aid and ported themselves to Quartz and the Apple Way. The
compatibility is the key here, not the improvements.
This is why, for example, you want the part of the DISPLAY value in
front of the colon to be blank or a hostname, not something else.
This is why you want XDMCP to work.
This is why you want people's ~/.xinitrc files, including their
settings of the DISPLAY environment variable, to work.
This is why you test with applications like OpenOffice and the GIMP,
major X11-based Mac applications, before putting a brand-new way of
doing X11 in a major operating system release. And why, if they don't
work, you ship that OS release with the old way of doing things,
rather than the new not-yet-working version.
Bill
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