Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-26 Thread Miles Bader
Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de writes: I'm one of those who's work would be severely disrupted by a hardwired CTRL-ALT-Backspace Zap. CTRL-ALT-Backspace is hardwired in my fingers from nearly 30 years of editing using Emacs and kin. Just curious here, and don't want to

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-26 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:04 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: (...) Only instead, it kills your X server... :( Ouch... Well, using Vim (and I preferably in uxterm) one is kind of protected from loosing changes by putting things into a screen session (but of course all the other

[SOLVE] Re: Launching X11 in specified vty ?

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Wolfgang , Well, you can tell Xorg server in which VT to run, the option is vtn (no leading '-' !), with n being the VT number you want to use. Exactly solved my problem , thanks ! But this still leaves you with the problem, that you

Re: [SOLVE] Re: Launching X11 in specified vty ?

2010-08-26 Thread Pat Kane
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Wolfgang , Well, you can tell Xorg server in which VT to run, the option is vtn (no leading '-' !), with n being the VT number you want to use. Exactly solved my

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:04 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: (...) Only instead, it kills your X server...  :( Ouch... Well, using Vim (and I preferably in uxterm) one is kind of protected

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-26 Thread Tiago Vignatti
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:50:18PM +0200, ext Alex Deucher wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maill...@draxit.de wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:04 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: (...) Only instead, it kills your X server...  :( Ouch...

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-26 Thread Glynn Clements
Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: Which brings me to something I always wondered about: Why is there no X pendant for screen (or I'm not aware of it)? I.e. some proxy X server, opening an additional display passing through X transparently, keeping record of prerequisite resources. Because it's

Re: Where input (hotplugging) methods might go - highly speculative (was: Re: Zapping the Xorg server)

2010-08-26 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:20:31 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: uhm. hotplugging works in that the X server receives an event when a device was added by the kernel. Then it opens the device file. See, that's exactly what I meant: There's extra work to be done by X, or any

Re: Sic transit gloria keycodi

2010-08-26 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-08-25 08:31 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: It was apparently decided that evdev should have different keycodes than the usual. I for one welcome our new keycodes, the old ones weren't any good anyway. Now I need a way

[ANNOUNCE] Compicc 0.8.1

2010-08-26 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
The second version of the compiz plugin for ICC colour correction of monitors is released. This release is a bug fix relase. Please update. Changes Overview: * fix installation and registration of data * fix conflicts of colour servers About: The project brings you instant desktop colour

Nvidia: Xorg displaying 50 Hz but uses 60 Hz

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear X.org folks, there seems to be a bug where the wrong refresh rate is displayed to the one which is used [1][2]. Despite setting VertRefresh50.0 60 Hz is used when not setting an explicit modeline. Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2010, 16:16 +0200 schrieb Thomas Hilber: On Thu, Aug 26,

Re: Nvidia: Xorg displaying 50 Hz but uses 60 Hz

2010-08-26 Thread Thomas Lübking
use nvidia-settings -q RefreshRate to determine the correct rate. The xrandr output has always been bullsh** with the css nvidia driver (i think it works if you use twinview or whatever, consult the nvidia readme) The bug should be clearly in the nvidia driver (afaics it works correctly w/

Re: Sic transit gloria keycodi

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:44:22PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-08-25 08:31 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: It was apparently decided that evdev should have different keycodes than the usual. I for one welcome our new

Re: Where input (hotplugging) methods might go - highly speculative (was: Re: Zapping the Xorg server)

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:59:48PM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:20:31 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: uhm. hotplugging works in that the X server receives an event when a device was added by the kernel. Then it opens the device file. See,

Re: [SOLVE] Re: Launching X11 in specified vty ?

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/26/2010 07:57 PM, Pat Kane wrote: I wonder if you are getting hit by the vt bug that Ajax just fixed?: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-August/012280.html No luck , sometimes i could see a dead cursor on the left corner ,

~/.xsession-errors not working anymore ?

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Due to system failures , after recovery , i'm missing ~/.xsession-errors , now i recreated this file ( touch ~/.xsession-errors ) , but i won't see any more debug information written to it , how to re-enable it ? I've got write