Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-15 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be writes: Hi, are you refering to mergefb (what is it anyway? an X patch?) or xrandr? I seem to recall that if you want clone mode with different geometries a compositing WM is better then xrandr. But I forgot why. I'm not

Re: [Xcb] [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-15 Thread Barton C Massey
Great work Arnaud! (I'm just catching up my email now, so sorry for the lag.) Thanks much for doing this, and congrats on completing your research! Bart -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-15 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Paweł Zuzelski z...@xatka.net writes: Hi, It's not perfect, but it works: xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x768 --same-as VGA1 --scale 1.5x1.5 Thanks for the tip. If anyone has ideas of useful plugins to implement in Unagi, please submit

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-15 Thread Paweł Zuzelski
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Thanks for the tip. If anyone has ideas of useful plugins to implement in Unagi, please submit a bug report and I will work on that as soon as I have finished improving overall performances. Is it possible (or can it be implemented), to zoom one

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-15 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Paweł Zuzelski z...@xatka.net writes: Hi, Is it possible (or can it be implemented), to zoom one given window using compmgr? I can zoom whole screen using xrandr (xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --scale 0.5x0.5), but I'd like to zoom only one X window (or one top-level

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hi, Normally, pkg-config should return the version of xcb-ewmh when you run the following command: $ pkg-config --modversion xcb-ewmh If it does not, it means that /usr/local/lib/pkg-config is not in your pkg-config path, which may explain why the configure script returns an error. In

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Adam Nielsen a.niel...@shikadi.net writes: Hi, If you could clone specific windows does that mean you could move windows between separate X11 screens without needing Xinerama? IMHO that would be ideal, because this is where a lot of problems stem from (windows

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Matthias Schröder
Am Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:36:37 +1000 schrieb Adam Nielsen a.niel...@shikadi.net: If you could clone specific windows does that mean you could move windows between separate X11 screens without needing Xinerama? IMHO that would be ideal, because this is where a lot of problems stem from (windows

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Gregor Best
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:53:16PM +0100, Matthias Schröder wrote: [...] Is something like that possible? [...] Hmm, in theory... I'm thinking along the lines of a screen(1) for X if you will. Something that emulates an X server towards the app (like Xephyr does) but that allow reattaching the

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Anton Bobrov
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:08:56AM +0300, Ilya Martinov wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:43:06PM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Hello, During the last year, I began writing a compositing manager as part of my Master dissertation. After few months of inactivity because I was busy

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Ilya Martinov
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:53:12AM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Hi, Normally, pkg-config should return the version of xcb-ewmh when you run the following command: $ pkg-config --modversion xcb-ewmh If it does not, it means that /usr/local/lib/pkg-config is not in your pkg-config

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hi, cc1: warnings being treated as errors plugin.c: In function 'plugin_load': plugin.c:63: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments I have just pushed a fix to the git repository. Hope that's ok. Let me know if you have any other problem ;). Cheers, Arnaud -- To

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Matthias Schröder
Am Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:59:11 +0100 schrieb Adrian C. an...@sysphere.org: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Germán Gutiérrez wrote: xpra maybe http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra From the README (http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/source/browse/README.xpra): Xpra works by connecting to an ordinary X

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Nielsen
If you could clone specific windows does that mean you could move windows between separate X11 screens without needing Xinerama? IMHO that would be ideal, because this is where a lot of problems stem from (windows appearing in the middle of the screen, or the

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Nielsen
Moving windows between separate X11 screens would be a great feature, i have three monitors on two cards, that means i can not use twinview by nvidia because that supports only one card. And i can also not use xrandr because current versions also only supports one card. You should be able to

[ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-11 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, During the last year, I began writing a compositing manager as part of my Master dissertation. After few months of inactivity because I was busy settling down and getting a job, I'm now pleased to announce the first release of Unagi, namely version 0.1, available there[0]. This

Re: [ANN]: Unagi: an XCB compositing manager

2010-02-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:43:06 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine arn...@andesi.org wrote: Hello, During the last year, I began writing a compositing manager as part of my Master dissertation. (...) Looks cool. - What's the difference with xcompmgr? (i haven't used either) - does this make it possible