[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:08, Jon Pennington wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:28PM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
>>> The following diffs adds minimalistic support for X RandR.
>> 
>> Call me dense, but what's the point of all of this?
> 
> On the fly resolution changes... very cool :)
> 
> For example - you start a default installation of X at 640x480 (which
> blows, hard).  So you dwiddle your config file and instead of restarting
> X, you just tell X to resize the root window.  This extension delivers an
> event to the window manager so that it can resize/relayout/restart when
> the screen size changes.

So this means no more virtual desktop stuff when resizing to smaller
screens? Or does it only work from small to large?

-- tinus

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