GLX extension?

[Tristan Richardson]

> Have you tried loading X extensions with Xvnc besides those 8 that come
> up automatically?
> 
> GLX would be particularly interesting, making vnc OpenGL-capable.
> 
> Having tried "Xvnc -x GLX" in the vncserver script in IRIX 6.3, I came
> to think there's something more to it than just that.
> 
> Any comment will be greatly appreciated -- I run OpenGL applications on
> a daily basis.


If you're a competent X server hacker you might be able to do this.  Xvnc is
really no more than another X server port, based on the X11R6 sample server. 

One approach you could take is to add the GLX extension to the Xvnc source
tree, hacking around all the imake stuff to get it to work.  An alternative
approach is to take an X source tree which already has the GLX extension and
try merging in the VNC-specific stuff (mainly in programs/Xserver/hw/vnc) to
that X tree.  See the Xvnc/README and xserver-diffs file for further clues.

Cheers

Tristan

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