New Features for Exceed

The following are new features for Exceed 2007. You should also view the new features for products included with Exceed.

X11 Protocol Support

Exceed and Exceed 3D support the latest X11 protocol, X11R7.1.

X Display Management Interface

The Exceed Display Controller Console (a Microsoft Management Console plug-in) provides an interface for setting parameters that control the assignment of display numbers. These parameters were previously accessible only by editing the Display Manager.ini file. The Display Controller is applicable only for terminal servers running Windows 2000 Server or Server 2003.

Hummingbird Profile Space Support

Exceed can now utilize Hummingbird Profile Space for Xstart (.xs) and Xsession (.ses) files. End users can save these configuration files to and retrieve them from one or more Profile Spaces.

If the Exceed Administrator chooses to install the Profile Space feature, Exceed Connection Manager displays Xstart and Xsession files from Profile Spaces as well as from local repositories, and users can use Hummingbird Neighborhood to launch Xstart and Xsession files.

Media Application Server (MAS) Support

Media Application Server (MAS) is an audio server that runs along side Exceed to enable quality presentation of real-time audio data from an X client. You can run MAS from the Hummingbird Connectivity group on the Windows Start menu by pointing to Exceed Tools and clicking MAS. MAS runs as an icon in your system tray.

Support for X Extensions

Xinerama  By exposing the Xinerama extension to X clients, Exceed and Exceed XDK benefit from the addition of the protocol extension, which makes X applications and window managers aware that two or more physical monitors are being used as one display.

XVideo  The XVideo protocol extension allows video to be directly displayed through hardware acceleration and provides quality playback.

Damage, Xfixes, RandR and Composite Extensions  Support for these extensions has been improved by implementing the latest X11R7.1 code.

Xprint Server  To enable the Xprint extension, you must start the Exceed X server from a command line and enable the Xprint extension using the following syntax:

You can also run Xprint from Xstart using the Command box in the Xstart dialog box to enable the extension.

Font-Related Improvements

New Font Encoding Engine  Exceed has a new encoding engine and offers encoding file (.enc) support for the recoding of Unicode-encoded fonts (iso 10646-1) to custom encodings.

XFD Utility Added  The xfd X application lets you view the characters in a font as well as information such as character metrics. This utility is accessible from the Font List dialog box.

Reorganized Font Database 

• Fonts formerly located in the 100dpi_15, 100dpi_2, and 100dpi_U directories are now located in the 100dpi font directory.
• Fonts formerly located in the 75dpi_15, 75dpi_2, and 75dpi_U directories are now located in the 75dpi font directory.
• latin_tt.fdb and ttf.fdb are new for this release.
• The arabic_tt, cnteuro_tt, cyrillic_tt, euro_tt , greek_tt, hebrew_tt, latin1_tt, turkish_tt and unicode_tt directories have been removed. The font files they contained are located in the new latin_tt directory.
• The south_asian_tt.fdb replaces thai_tt.fdb, and includes Thai and Indic fonts.
• The unicode directory has been removed. The font files it contained are now located in the misc directory.

Reorganized Font Database Groups (.xdb Files) 

• The following database groups have been added:
• • latin_lfp.xdb
  • south_asian-lfp.xdb
• The following database groups have been removed:
• • arabic_lfp.xdb
  • cntreuro_lfp.xdb
  • euro_lfp.xdb
  • latin1_lfp.xdb
  • thai_lfp.xdb is now in south_asian-lfp.xdb
  • unicode_lfp.xdb

Additional Font Support: 

• The ttf.fdb directory is new for this release.
• The Korean directory contains new fonts.

New Functionality in Virtual Desktop

The Virtual Desktop feature now offers options that enable support for the displaying of both Microsoft Windows-based applications and X applications running the native window manager. It also supports 12 virtual desktop work areas that you can name and use to manage both X windows (running Native Window Manager) and Microsoft windows. You can navigate the work areas using the F1 through F12 keys.

Hummingbird Neighborhood and Exceed Startup Files

You can now run Exceed Xstart (.xs) and Xsession (.ses) files from Hummingbird Neighborhood.

Application Window Properties Support

The following new application window properties are now supported by Exceed:

• _NET_WM_NAME
• _NET_WM_VISIBLE_NAME
• _NET_WM_ICON_NAME
• _NET_WM_VISIBLE_ICON_NAME
• _NET_WM_DESKTOP
• _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE
• _NET_WM_STATE
• _NET_WM_ICON

Supporting these properties, ensures that Exceed will interact more efficiently with UNIX and Linux desktop environments, including GNOME and KDE.

Multi-Threaded Window Message

Exceed can now continue to render X applications while other events, such as displaying a drop-down menu, occur.

Additional Keysyms and Keyboard Files

Exceed now ships with additional keysyms, which are located in the keysyms.kbs file. It also ships with two new keyboard files:

• korean.kbf
• sunusb.kbf

Profile-Specific Toolbar Configuration

Exceed toolbar configuration is now Xconfig profile specific. When users load an Xconfig profile, the Exceed toolbar configuration saved in the profile determines the content of the toolbar.

Improved Multiple Monitor Support

The Prevent Center Dialog Across Monitors option in Xconfig ensures that when multiple monitors are used, dialogs are not displayed in the center of the viewing area (across two or more monitors). When this option is enabled, dialogs that would otherwise span two or more screens are displayed entirely within a single physical screen.

XDMCP Enhancement

The XDMCP Display Manager Chooser window, which appears when starting X sessions in XDMCP Broadcast startup mode, now lets users manually specify a host if it is not listed in the list of available hosts. Users can also use column headings to sort the list of hosts.

Xsession Display Handling

A new option in the Xsession Options dialog box lets users launch a new Exceed session on an incremented display number for each Xsession profile they run. When this option is not enabled, Exceed uses existing sessions, if any exists, to host subsequent sessions launched by Xsession.

Xconfig User Interface

Elements of the Xconfig user interface have been reorganized and redesigned for improved ease of use.

Undocumented Protocol Extension Support

Exceed supports the following undocumented protocol extensions:

• LBX
• Multi-Buffering
• SUN_OVL
• XTest Extension1

Documentation Update

New Installation Guide  Installation of all Hummingbird Connectivity products, including Exceed, is now addressed in the Hummingbird Connectivity Installation Guide, available in PDF format on all product CDs. You will also find information on Sconfig and other advanced installation procedures formerly located in the Exceed User's Guide in this new manual.

Discontinued Manuals  The Exceed XDK and Exceed 3D user guides are no longer available. You will find the documentation for these Exceed products in the Exceed User's Guide.

Known Issues for Exceed

In this section of the Hummingbird Connectivity 2007 Release Notes, you will find descriptions of issues related to Exceed that Hummingbird is aware of at the time of release.

You should also view the known issues for products included with Exceed.

Feature Compatibility with Composite Extension

If you enable the Composite or Damage extension, ensure that you disable Backing Stores (even for UNIX) and the Limit Window Exposures option. Failure to do so will result in unexpected behavior in your X application.

X Client Startup Wizard and Profile Space

The X Client Startup Wizard does not support Profile Space browsing. All files are saved in the Profile folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Hummingbird\Connectivity\12.00\Profile

Connectivity Kerberos and Xstart x64

Only Xstart 32-bit functions with Kerberos.