Applications that would like to take advantage of the Low Bandwidth extension to
X (LBX) must make their connections to an lbxproxy. These applications need to
know nothing about LBX, they simply connect to the lbxproxy as if were a regular
server. The lbxproxy accepts client connections, multiplexes them over a single
connection to the X server, and performs various optimizations on the X protocol
to make it faster over low bandwidth and/or high latency connections.
With regard to authentication/authorization, lbxproxy simply passes along to the
server the credentials presented by the client. Since X clients will connect to
lbxproxy, it is important that the user's .Xauthority file contain entries with
valid keys associated with the network ID of the proxy. lbxproxy does not get
involved with how these entries are added to the .Xauthority file. The user is
responsible for setting it up.
Note that the X server source from X.Org no longer supports the LBX extension,
so this program is only useful in connecting to older X servers.
libXext/buildlink3.mk, now that it is included there.
Leave the places where its API version is set or variables from it
are used directly (about 3 packages).
Rename lbx.h to lbxproxy.h to avoid conflict with new lbx.h in xextproto 7.1
Migrate to xorg macros 1.3 & XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
Fix compatibility with libXext 1.1 / xextproto 7.1 headers
Bug 7317: xfs doesn't build on some GLIBC based systems: _XOPEN_SOURCE undefined
Rename .cvsignore to .gitignore
Add *~ to .gitignore to skip patch/emacs droppings
Replace static ChangeLog with dist-hook to generate from git log
Ansification and compile warning fixes.
This package provides lbxproxy, the proxy for the Low Bandwidth
extension to X (LBX). Clients connect to lbxproxy, which multiplexes
them over a single connection to the X server, performing various
optimisation to reduce bandwidth usage and/or latency.
This is from the modular X.org X11 project.
