Re: Help on creating a Window Manager

2003-08-31 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Peter Poulsen wrote: I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list

Re: Window maximize/minimize request to Window Manager

2003-08-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:54:22PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: Here's some code from a Tk application that maximizes windows on some modern window managers. (icewm, sawfish, metacity are the ones I've used the code on personally) Please be nice to my code, I don't know X half as well as I

Re: DPI with multiple heads and virtual desktops

2003-08-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:02:27AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:02, John Meacham wrote: if only there were an extension allowing windows to be migrated between screens by the window manager [...] FWIW, GTK can migrate between displays as of 2.2, I don't know if

Re: Xrender transforms...

2003-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:59:19AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: to the best of my knowledge, no. i remember it being discussed, but keith was very particular on a client being able to depend on the exact output of render so software and hardware/render routines could match. i can't find

Re: Xrender transforms...

2003-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:02:32AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: though i've said it before, xrender really should be an easily accessible 2d subset of opengl and pixel-exact rendering as it defines limits the ability to accelerate it - either with tricks in software (by losing 1 bit of

Re: smproxy and gnome-smproxy break the XSMP

2003-07-31 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:25:23PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: 1. Remove smproxy from XFree and gnome-smproxy from GNOME with the hope that all alive applications which use the old sm protocol will switch to the new one. Probably a bad solution ...? By the way it seems that KDE does not

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:52:47AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind)

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:09:44PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Ironically, the Linux desktop community doesn't target the only potential business case there is. It's often at odds with it. Workstation users like a platform that doesn't change and anything that risks damaging OpenGL

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Kean Johnston wrote: You can specify en_US.UTF-8 as your locale. Which implies to me that xterm can recognize, from its environment, the encoding, and act accordingly. Which only encourages the sort of bugs that many an autoconf script has had,

Re: logging out an X session

2003-02-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:00:43AM -0600, Omon Edeki wrote: Dear all, I am desperately trying to write a program to log out a user from a linux KDE/GNOME X window session.In trying to do this, I am killing all the users' processes using kill(pid_t pid, SIGKILL) to all the users processes.

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote: In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't handle non-U.S. text).

Re: SunRay driver for XFree86

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:40:12PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote: What would be the best starting point to write a SunRay driver for XFree86? What interface is there and where is it documented? Does XFree86 split nicely into a hardware dependent and hardware independent layer and is that