Re: The right tool to use: XGetImage or Compositing or something else entirely

2011-02-23 Thread Nathan Kidd
On 11-02-23 03:19 PM, Philip Lawatsch wrote: What I'm trying to do is write some support to use an nvidia optimus system under linux (basically one has two graphics cards, but only one of the is connected to physical displays). So, any suggestions / advice / best practices (other than not

Re: can't find xorg.conf information from web pages

2011-02-10 Thread Nathan Kidd
On 11-02-09 02:21 PM, matti christensen wrote: well - this is Firefox 3.6.9 and it does not work after triplecheck /mc http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.x.org%2Freleases%2Fcurrent%2Fdoc%2Fman%2Fman5%2Fxorg.conf.5.xhtmlcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-27 Thread Nathan Kidd
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:43:25PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: Either approach fixes the WireToEvent case when considering events being generated by the server, but I don't think there's anything that can be done about the EventToWire (SendEvent request) case. Your choice

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-26 Thread Nathan Kidd
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:42:59PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: In the last few years inputproto's number of events (IEVENTS) has jumped around quite a bit between 15 and 19, which has resulted in the following issue I've recently became aware of: ... AIUI, other extensions

Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-25 Thread Nathan Kidd
. Does it not makes sense for distro maintainers to apply a similar patch to their older X branches? -Nathan Nathan Kidd Open Text, Connectivity Solutions Group ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-25 Thread Nathan Kidd
Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 16:42:59 -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: xlib sets event_vec[85 .. 85 + 17] xinput WireToEvent function, i.e. OVERWRITES xkeyboard's WireToEvent proc because xserver only allowed for 15 events between the event bases, since that's all it knew about

Re: Turning off Monitor

2009-11-09 Thread Nathan Kidd
Jim Dred wrote: Hi I have a laptop whose display is getting bad by the day, and i want it off while I can use the rest of it on vnc over my network. I use xset dpms force off, but the mouse / keyboard movement triggers it on again. Is there a way to turn it off for good? This isn't an

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-07 Thread Nathan Kidd
Mark Wagner wrote: I'm busy updating the Linux branch of a cross-platform toolkit that was last updated in 1994. ... Is there a good online document on how to program for XWindows using Xlib? Are there programming references for the various extensions, or do I need to work from protocol