Install XOrg7

The path to XOrg7

Upgrading from XOrg 6.x

Currently, the XOrg7 module needs you to do a few things manually if you upgrade from an earlier XOrg 6.x installation. You have to adhere to the following steps. If you do not listen to our advice then you're on your own.

• Remove the old XOrg (XOrg 6.x conflicts with XOrg 7.x)

lrm XOrg

This action will most likely cause some font related modules to recompile, this is to be expected.

• Backup the old /etc/X11 (with your old xorg.conf)

mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11.old

• Remove the old XOrg installation remains

rm -fr /usr/X11R6

• Remove some old symlinks if they still exist
  • rm /usr/X11
  • rm /usr/include/X11
  • rm /usr/lib/X11
  • rm /usr/include/GL

• Clear out the %X alias which might be set to 'XOrg':
  • lunar unset LUNAR_ALIAS_X

Note: The next application that depends on X is going to ask you which alias you would like to match to %X. Choose XOrg7 here or you will have to reset the alias again!

• Make sure XOrg is never installed again:
  • lunar exile XOrg
  • lunar fixdepends

If you do not do this it could be resurrected by modules that were installed with XOrg...

Installing XOrg 7.x

• History:
  • XOrg 7.2: Added 20070215
  • XOrg 7.1: Added 20061017

XOrg 7.2 was added to moonbase as of 15/02/2007. It has it's own section in /var/lib/lunar/moonbase/xorg7

You may use the 'XOrg7' module to install XOrg 7.2:

lin XOrg7

XOrg-7.2 includes full support for the AIGLX extension (which means accelerated X output for the XDamage and XComposite extensions). You don't need XGL anymore.

Installation notes

XOrg7 is installing to /usr by default and NOT to /usr/X11R7 or any other prefix inside /usr. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard does not allow that. All major linux distributions are following the FHS and have adjusted their builds accordingly:

• Debian
• Arch Linux
• Gentoo

You may however set an arbitary prefix for XOrg incase you do not want it to install to /usr. You may do so by running the following command:

lunar set X11R7_PREFIX=/your/prefix/here

The most commonly used prefix would be /usr/X11R7, however, some other prefix inside /opt is entirely possible.

The XOrg7 profile is going to create some symlinks on your system:

/usr/X11 -> $MODULE_PREFIX; /usr by default


/usr/X11R6 -> $MODULE_PREFIX; /usr by default

The X11R6 symlink is there for compatibility reasons. Many of the older and even some of the newer packages inside the moonbase have a hardcoded path pointing to /usr/X11R6 inside their source trees. Keeping the symlink prevents them from breaking apart.

Missing modules from the XOrg 7.x modular tree

Despite our best efforts to give you the whole XOrg 7.x modular tree as modules to install there are still many of them left untouched either because they are not important to run a full featured X environment or nobody had the time to add them yet. As always contribution are welcome and appreciated:

• x11-apps
  • lbxproxy - Low BandWidth X proxy
  • mkcfm - create summaries of CID font metric files
  • oclock - round X clock
  • proxymngr - proxy manager service
  • scripts - run X command on another system via rsh
  • showfont - show information about X font from font server
  • viewres - graphical class/resource browser for Xt
  • xbiff - watch mailboxes for new message delivery
  • xclipboard - X clipboard manager
  • xditview - display ditroff output
  • xfd - display all the characters in an X font
  • xfindproxy - locate proxy services
  • xfontsel - point and click selection of X11 font names
  • xfsinfo - X font server information utility
  • xfwp - X Firewall Proxy
  • xgc - X graphics demo
  • xlogo - Draw [old] X logo
  • xlsclients - list client applications running on a display
  • xphelloworld - Xprint sample applications
  • xprehashprinterlist - Rehash list of Xprint printers
  • xrx - "Broadway"
  • xsetmode - set the mode for an X Input device
  • xsetpointer - set an X Input device as the main pointer
  • xsm - X Session Manager
  • xstdcmap - X standard colormap utility
  • xtrap - an extension to X that facilitates user emulation
  • xvidtune - video mode tuner for Xorg
• x11-data ==> COMPLETE
• x11-doc ==> COMPLETE
• x11-driver
  • xf86-video-sunbw2
  • xf86-video-suncg3
  • xf86-video-suncg6
  • xf86-video-suncg14
  • xf86-video-sunffb
  • xf86-video-sunleo
  • xf86-video-suntcx
  • xf86-video-tdfx
  • xf86-video-tga
  • xf86-video-trident (added by Auke - 20061103)
  • xf86-video-tseng
• x11-extras ==> COMPLETE
• x11-font ==> COMPLETE
• x11-lib
  • libAppleWM - platform specific libraries: [MacOS]
  • libWindowsWM - platform specific libraries: [Win32]
• x11-proto
  • windowswmproto - platform specific protocol headers [Win32]
• x11-util
  • lndir
• xserver ==> COMPLETE