Re: Help on creating a Window Manager

2003-08-31 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Peter Poulsen wrote: > > I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager > (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more > information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is > there a mailing l

Re: Window maximize/minimize request to Window Manager

2003-08-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:54:22PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > Here's some code from a Tk application that maximizes windows on some > modern window managers. (icewm, sawfish, metacity are the ones I've used > the code on personally) Please be nice to my code, I don't know X half > as well as I w

Re: DPI with multiple heads and virtual desktops

2003-08-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:02:27AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:02, John Meacham wrote: > > > > if only there were an extension allowing windows to be migrated between > > screens by the window manager [...] > > FWIW, GTK can migrate between displays as of 2.2, I don't

Re: Xrender transforms...

2003-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:02:32AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > though i've said it before, xrender really should be an easily accessible 2d > subset of opengl and pixel-exact rendering as it defines limits the ability to > accelerate it - either with tricks in software (by losing 1 bit of pre

Re: Xrender transforms...

2003-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:59:19AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > to the best of my knowledge, no. i remember it being discussed, but keith was > very particular on a client being able to depend on the exact output of render > so software and hardware/render routines could match. i can't find an

Re: smproxy and gnome-smproxy break the XSMP

2003-07-31 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:25:23PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > 1. Remove smproxy from XFree and gnome-smproxy from GNOME with > the hope that all alive applications which use the old sm protocol > will switch to the new one. Probably a bad solution ...? By the > way it seems that KDE does not

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:52:47AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then > only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big > film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They > probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:09:44PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Ironically, the Linux desktop community doesn't target the > only potential business case there is. It's often at odds with > it. Workstation users like a platform that doesn't change and anything > that risks damaging OpenGL b

Re: Tutorials

2003-07-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:08:43AM -0300, Mathias Brito wrote: > Where can I find good tutorials for development with xlib. > Don't forget the first rule of Xlib, "use a toolkit instead," unless you're implementing a toolkit or window manager or something. Havoc _

Re: logging out an X session

2003-02-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:00:43AM -0600, Omon Edeki wrote: > Dear all, > I am desperately trying to write a program to log out a user from a linux > KDE/GNOME X window session.In trying to do this, I am killing all the > users' processes using kill(pid_t pid, SIGKILL) to all the users > processes

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Kean Johnston wrote: > > You can specify "en_US.UTF-8" as your locale. Which implies > > to me that xterm can recognize, from its environment, the > > encoding, and act accordingly. > Which only encourages the sort of bugs that many an autoconf > script

Re: A question about this list

2003-02-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:16:16PM -0300, Individual . . wrote: > > I joined this list because I have started programming with xlib.The > questions I will probably ask will be quite basic. Is this a good list > for this purpose? I googled quite a bit but could not find a mailing > list dealing

Re: SunRay driver for XFree86

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:40:12PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote: > What would be the best starting point to write a SunRay driver for > XFree86? What interface is there and where is it documented? Does > XFree86 split nicely into a hardware dependent and hardware independent > layer and is that dr

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:10:59PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > CUT_BUFFER is completely obsolete and totally broken. Most newer apps > > don't even use it. > > > > Right, that is what most people keep telling me. > > However, I am a pragmatic guy. If the current effect is that 99% or >

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote: > > In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from > > CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this > > people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't > > handle non-U.S. t

Re: A simple Xcursor theme for core cursors

2003-01-25 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, Owen Taylor wrote up a little app we're using in Red Hat that allows you to create a single large GIMP image with all the cursors in a grid, then convert it into xcursor files. It's in the redhat-artwork SRPM in rawhide if you're interested. Havoc _

Re: freetype-config --libs only supplies -L

2003-01-19 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:57:31PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote: > Hi, > > freetype-config only knows about -L for the library path, that won't work > on system which requires also a -Wl,-rpath > > The problem is that I don't know if that would work on all systems. I believe libtool normally does

Re: xmag crashes on certain mouse behaviour

2003-01-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:04:22AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x400c4030 in XtPopdown () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0x400c4030 in XtPopdown () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 > #1 0x0804a1b6 in ceil () > #2 0x400dbaea