On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Dave Klipec wrote:
> Richard Kilgore wrote:
> >>I can say that it doesn't feel particularly faster, however - RandR will
> >>be one of those "FINALLY!" features once all the major DM's/WM's support
> >
> >
> >QandQ? Xand14? Enlighten us, please. I know I could go read
> >stuff on the XFree website, but lots of people won't, and it's a
> >pet peeve of mine to read something that's abbreviated when a
> >large portion of the audience won't have a clue what they stand
> >for.
>
> RandR == Resize and Rotate. The ability to change X's resolution and
> virtual desktop dimensions without restarting X. You used to only be
> able to change resolution with the same "actual" screen size - just
> scroll around the viewport. Now, you can do both. Gnome 2.2 seems to
> somewhat correctly handle this (my edge panel isn't stopping
> maximization yet - I'll look for that in 2.2.1).
>
> My bad, this has been the buzz about X4.3 for some time now, so I made
> the bad assumption that everyone knew.
>
> >And if anyone says gentoo users are enough in-the-know to figure
> >it out but still doesn't think vi should be in the stage1
> >tarball, you're nuts! :)
>
> What? You mean you don't use sed and awk to do all your config file
> editing (...are those even in stage1)?
I always like perl -pi -e.
- richard
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