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Emma Anholt authored
XV was going against convention by having the core infrastructure
allocate the private on behalf of the DDX.  I was interested in this
because I was trying to make multiple pieces of DDX be able to
allocate adaptors, and that wasn't going to work if DDX-specific code
was hung off of a single global screen private.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
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					X Server

The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows,
which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program
can draw into.

Windows are then composed on the actual screen by the X server
(or by a separate composite manager) as directed by the window manager,
which usually communicates with the user via graphical controls such as buttons
and draggable titlebars and borders.

For a comprehensive overview of X Server and X Window System, consult the
following article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_server

All questions regarding this software should be directed at the
Xorg mailing list:

        http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Please submit bug reports to the Xorg bugzilla:

        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg

The master development code repository can be found at:

        git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver

        http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

For patch submission instructions, see:

	http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

For more information on the git code manager, see:

        http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage