Re: Extending desktop over laptop HDMI port to LCD monitor

2011-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 19 May 2011 23:28:37 -0400 Michael B Allen iop...@gmail.com wrote: Where do I go from here? Use XRandR to change the display configruation on the fly. Personally I prefer using the command line tool xrandr, as it allows performing a whole bunch of configurations settings in a single

Multibuffer Extension and Stereoscopic Rendering / Doublebuffering and Composite

2011-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Hi, as most of you are aware (or should be) the multibuffer extension had been dropped from the latest release of X.Org. However multibuffer had been the way to create stereoscopic drawables -- if one doesn't consider OpenGL quadbuffer, which works independently from X multibuffer (personally I

Re: i couldn't start an application which is installed on the Server with Graphic User Interface

2011-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:51:42 +0800 tian kong thisisasafeacco...@gmail.com wrote: But when i used Ubuntu10.04, open the terminal, and use the following command: ssh -l abc -p 222 111.111.111.111 -X, and then after i login into the server and start xCrySDen, it works, i can see the

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

2010-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Am Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:40:39 +1000 schrieb Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net: like /dev/input/mice? Kind of, but on steroids. Also in the concept I'm thinking of here, access to individual devices wasn't impossible. But you'd normally not need it. It only made sense in combination with

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Am Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:50:33 -0700 schrieb Corbin Simpson mostawesomed...@gmail.com: Peter's been working solely on input handling and the XInput 2 stuff since he got started. If you want more work put into Gallium, you should find people like Marek, Luca, or me, that currently work on

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

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: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:05 +0200 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: This is not true. The sequence was removed from the default xkb map, and can be turned back on with the appropriate xkb option, either in xorg.conf or your desktop or your session startup scripts. Well, this is a

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:42 +0100 Andrew Clayton and...@digital-domain.net wrote: Don't worry. It's still there. In some form, yes. However it can be disabled by setxkbmap -option Now there are situations in which you don't want users being able to disable the Zap, but also don't want the

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:03 -0400 (EDT) Patrick O'Donnell p...@ascent.com wrote: 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

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:07:16 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: re:xmodmap, the following may be interesting reading http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboard-configuration-its-complicated.html Educational indeed. However I hate relying on desktop environments and their

Re: Delayed reply-CCs (was: Zapping the Xorg server)

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Sorry guys, I just took notice, that my replies missed the CC to the maillist (my failure, I messed up my MUAs configuration). So those who now get duplicates, due to the directly addressed replies, and now the CC, take my apologies. But I prefer to CCs my answers here for the discussion being

Re: Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:44:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: Then you get to either fix the scripts or fix your DE. No-one really cares _what_ desktop environment you're running and one is as good as the other. The one developers are running themselves naturally get more

Zapping the Xorg server

2010-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
Hi, as you might know, Zapping the Xorg server by means of CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE has been first disabled by default, and later on the xorg.conf option went away, too. It is still possible to setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bks somewhere in the startup/init scripts to reenable, but I wonder

Re: How to start clone mode when X is initialized

2010-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:57:44 -0700 Uri Okrent uriel.okr...@disneyanimation.com wrote: The issue is, right now the operator has to go run up to the control room to log in (because gdm only appears on display 0). What she does now is after logging in, her nvidia settings are set up for clone