https://github.com/marnanel/xzibit

Per-window VNC. Should eventually be merged into Telepathy.
https://github.com/marnanel/xzibit

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Per-window VNC. Should eventually be merged into Telepathy.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/marnanel/xzibit
• Owner: marnanel
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2011-01-27T16:39:25.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-01-27T16:41:14.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T14:38:18.562Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xzibit
• Size: 4.09 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
xzibit is a per-window VNC system.

Its development is supported by Collabora Ltd.

A. Instructions:

1. make sure you have wmctrl, xlogo, libvncserver,

   Xephyr, and gtk-vnc installed.

   (some of these are checked by autotools,

    some of them aren't yet.)

2. run ./autogen.sh

3. run make install

4. if your mutter is expecting plugins in /usr/lib, you

   may need to run

       sudo cp /usr/local/lib/mutter/plugins/xzibit.so \

           /usr/lib/mutter/plugins/

 

   (this should really be done in autotools)

5. use gconf-editor to set

       /apps/mutter/general/clutter_plugins

   to a list containing the string

       xzibit

6. run xzibit-demo

That's all to be going on with.

B. More details:

xzibit-demo calls xzibit-run with some useful arguments.

xzibit-run launches two Xephyrs, :3 and :4, and sets

up a mutter instance on both of them.  It then runs

xzibit-autoshare on :3.  xzibit-autoshare automatically

sets itself as shared after a few seconds.  This should

cause it to appear on :4 as well.

For more information, read the protocol document in doc/.

C. What's left to do:

Vital:

 * Telepathy support.  At present it only works across

   the loopback interface.  The next release will

   send the windows over Tubes.

 * Getting xinput2 support fully working, so we can fake

   mouse clicks and keypresses on arbitrary windows.

 * "Doppelganger" pointers, i.e. ones which track the

   movement on the other display.

Less important:

 * Audio support.  This is partly-written in a branch.

D. Toggling sharing of windows

xzibit-toggle is a simple program to let you click on

a window and share it (or unshare it).

E. The envelope patch

There is a patch, not supplied here, to add an envelope

button to mutter's window decorations.  This button

changes colour to reflect the sharing status of the

window.  When pressed, it runs the src/xzibit-share

script.  This patch can't currently be done in a plugin,

and since there are slightly less convenient but much

less intrusive ways to do the same thing, I left it out.

It may be better to do this using Canonical's "windicators"

idea.

F. Where to find more information

 * http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xzibit

 * http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/tthurman/xzibit/.git

 * mailto:[email protected]