Xorg Applications

Introduction to Xorg Applications

The Xorg applications provide the expected applications available in previous X Window implementations.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Xorg Applications Dependencies

Required

xbitmaps-1.0.1, libpng-1.2.12, and Xorg Libraries

Recommended

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Applications

Downloading Xorg Applications

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/xorg/app-7.1.wget &&
mkdir app &&
cd app &&
wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \
     -i ../app-7.1.wget

Installation of Xorg Applications

A security vulnerability has been identified in the xload package. Before building this package with the commands shown below, be sure to apply the supplied patches. The patch can be applied with with the following command:

patch -Np1 -i ../xload-1.0.1-setuid-1.patch

Install the applications by running the following commands for each chosen package:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

These packages do not provide test suites.

Now as the root user:

make install

Last updated on 2007-01-23 13:00:33 -0600