[oclug] X11 Windows client needed

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:00:37PM -0500, Brian's Linux Box wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 03:40  PM, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > what you are looking
> >for, for MS-Windows) is an X server not an X client.
> 
> Which might explain why my web searches were turning up poor results 
> too.
> X serves up the video so to speak....
> Thanks for the correction.

You should now be in the appropriate frame of mind to read
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html

Times change, of course.  XClock now takes 4.7MB instead of the quoted 656k.
But that's OK.  I don't run xclock.  Instead I run
/usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36
which takes up a measly 14.7MB.

$ ldd `which xclock` |wc
     18      72     973
$ ldd /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet |wc
     55     220    3277

Thank you GNOME for making the X-windows disaster seem like small potatoes!

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