Luke Benstead wrote:
I guess this looks like a bug with the OpenGL libraries rather than an XOrg
one after all, as I would assume the OpenGL libraries would restore the
video
mode if the application terminated unexpectedly.
I think it is a bug with Xorg. The way I see it, an
Hi all,
Something that's bugged me for a long time with XOrg is that there seems to be
no way to recover when an application crashes after changing the screen
resolution. In the past I have usually been able to recover with
Alt+Ctrl+KP_Plus but right at this moment those keys do nothing and I am
Please let me know if anyone knows how to change X11 screen resolutions
without closing down everything and restarting.
Okay, I figured out a way. Since it was an OpenGL program crashing, OpenGL
has the answer:
// gcc -o vidmode vidmode.cpp -lglut
#include GL/glut.h
int main(int argc, char
I guess this looks like a bug with the OpenGL libraries rather than an XOrg
one after all, as I would assume the OpenGL libraries would restore the video
mode if the application terminated unexpectedly.
I think it is a bug with Xorg. The way I see it, an application
shouldn't be able to leave
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 22:10 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
Something that's bugged me for a long time with XOrg is that there seems to be
no way to recover when an application crashes after changing the screen
resolution. In the past I have usually been able to recover with
Alt+Ctrl+KP_Plus but
Adam Nielsen wrote:
Please let me know if anyone knows how to change X11 screen resolutions
without closing down everything and restarting.
The following uses XFree86-VidModeExtension:
/* make xvidmode CFLAGS='-Wall' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R6/lib' LDLIBS='-lX11
-lXxf86vm -lXext' */
#include
Please let me know if anyone knows how to change X11 screen resolutions
without closing down everything and restarting.
The following uses XFree86-VidModeExtension:
Well that's very interesting - not only did it work, but after running it I
was able to use Alt+Ctrl+KP_Plus to switch back to
