hello! i'd like to suggest that there should be a USE flag for xinerama should be added. this is usefull for people who don't need it and even don't want it, because it interferes with prelinking, e.g. in qt. in the forums, there is a thread concerning how to disable it manually for qt, you have to manually edit the ebuild and add -no-xinerama to the myconf. i think it is http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21117&highlight=prelink&sid=17379d314dfe448d64e25fd4e85b31f7. and there is a thread on disabling it in X as well, but i'm still not sure if my solution is correct (and actually does anything), but for reference i'll give the url: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=206105#206105. i think this is worth being checked. yours, revo
I'd like to second this request. I emerged ion-devel, and when running it failed, complaining about missing Xinerama. I don't use Xinerama. Upon investigating, it turns out that system.mk for ion-devel-20030131 configures for compilation against Xinerama. I customized the ebuild to sed this out of system.mk, but I had to do it universally: I couldn't check for the presence of Xinerama. So my customized ebuild is only useful for people in my situation, not generally.
openbox and gnome both have support for xinemarama. currently its on-by-default, but this is use-flaggable
from the kde side, I just manually added xinerama to my use flags and the kdebase ebuild. I'm waiting for it to compile to see whether it stops crashing when I exit kdm. I think use flagging it would make things a lot easier for developers and users.
the use flag is now official. the KDE team is adding it to the relevant kde packages as we speak, and I will be adding it to the xfree (4.3) ebuild this week.
