FedoraNEWS: HOWTO: Building Metisse RPM Package for Fedora Core | Linux Today

FedoraNEWS: HOWTO: Building Metisse RPM Package for Fedora Core

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2004

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung
for this link. ]

“Metisse is an experimental X desktop with some OpenGL capacity.
It is constituted by a virtual X server called Xwnc, a special
version of FVWM and an FVWM module FvwmAmetista (after
Ametista).

“Xwnc is a mix of Xvnc and XDarwin. It draws nothing on your
screen, every things is drawn into pixmaps. Similarly as Xvnc, but
with a different protocol, Xwnc can send these pixmaps (and others
information) to a ‘viewer…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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