On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Tim Keating wrote:
> [snip]
> What I'd like to do is switch to the graphical login (kdm, gdm, or xdm)
> and still have the ability to switch between single or dual head, for the
> obvious reason that DRI doesn't work in dual head mode, and I _HAVE_ to
> have DRI to play games. 8-) I'd like to have the dual head mode readily
> available for the simple reason that, once you've used dual head mode for
> a while, a single monitor just seems so confining.
Yeah, now if it would just work on my system...
> I've had a quick look at the source code and since I don't know C++, well
> it looks like C++ to me. It wasn't obvious to me if Restart mearly
> restarted Blackbox, or restarted X. What I'm kinda hoping is that
> Restart, restarts X and that perhaps I can pass the same -xfconfig
> variables to it somewhere and switch back and forth quickly, without going
> back down to console mode.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Or am I stuck booting up in
> console mode and flipping in and out of X to get single or dual head
> modes? This might be useful in restarting X in other color depths as
> well.
>
> Thanks for any info, pointers or suggestions of applicable documentation.
>
> Tim
The restart command of Blackbox merely restarts Blackbox. However, (and I
really don't know how to do this) since Restart can take an argument for a
program to start instead of restarting Blackbox, you could write a script
that could kill X and restart it in double/single head mode.
I'm not too sure, but I hope it helped.
--gile
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