On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 > Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > >> So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg > > >> command line and it works! > > > > > > wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... > > > well well. :) > > > > It was only added a few months ago: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1029 > > > > Xwayland 23.1 was the first stable release to ship it - on the Xorg > > side I don't think it's in any stable release yet, just the git repo. > > It sounds like there needs to be a clearer error message produced, > given the amount of hassle it's taken to identify this problem. I'm not > sure whether the server or the client ought to report it explicitly, > but I guess it would be a smaller change to ensure that a server with > the new feature logged any failures that it caught/caused?
I'm not really disagreeing but we don't have a lot of options here, doubly so for old clients that won't be modified. We do use the proper client error reporting so ideally you'll see that on the terminal - alas if you're not starting the client from the terminal you won't see that. And logging every access from a client is not great either - and logging it once will likely just make it disappear in the rest of the server log. Cheers, Peter
