-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'lo all...
desktop UNIX has been haunted by several rough edges. XF86Config, anyone? setting up X is fairly easy these days, but still a bit too advanced for many non-power-users. and that whole restart X thing sucks too, right? as you may have heard, XFree86 4.3 is coming with a few new extensions, including the RandR extension. it's already in XFree86's CVS and some developers have started implementing support for it into the desktop so users can easily access it. i'd expect it to appear in KDE 3.2. here's an email frm Hamish Rodda that has screenshots and more details... thought it might be of interest to some on the list... - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: X Resize and Rotate support Date: Saturday 19 October 2002 08:32 From: Hamish Rodda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, X Resize and Rotate is an extension to X which allows resizing, rotating, reflecting, and changing the refresh rate of each screen of an X display on the fly. The extension has recently been committed to XFree86; the next version, 4.3 is planned for release this year. I've commited a user interface for this extension to kdenonbeta/kcmrandr. It consists (currently) of a control panel and a system tray app. Screenshots can be found here: http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~meddie/patches/screenshots/ As you might expect, there are a few things which could be altered to support the extension better, though the system is quite usable already: Qt * Font sizes on newly started apps are too small / too large after a resolution decrease / increase respectively (X bug?) * Popup menus do not get properly constrained to the size of the new window Kwin * Capture RRScreenChangeEvent and appropriately place windows Kicker * Capture RRScreenChangeEvent and reposition appropriately rather than (as currently) being restarted via dcop RandR programs * Write a kded module (?) to retain a user-wide setting over logins * Make KTimerDialog a respectable candidate for kdeui inclusion * Not tested with Xinerama / multiple screens (but should support them if there are no bugs) Feedback welcome ;) (though my net access will be limited for the next month) Cheers, Hamish - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9sxsi1rcusafx20MRAhpBAJ9yaj6THgfmKKytTF+0D9uNpc9ZnQCfSf3Q HxFNRiHc5CTippKR5TekyjI= =6C0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
