Re: [RP] [RFC] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Emilien Gaspar
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote : > However I'd like people who actually have multiple screens setups to > *test this and report back*. I have never used ratpoison with multiple > screens, I don't have multiple screens at hand and I don't want to make >

Re: [RP] [RFC v2] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
Mathieu OTHACEHE writes: >> Erm, you may have to do it again, since I've now pushed some old stuff >> to the repo. :-| > > No problem :) >> >> OTOH, diffs are fine for testing but for what should hit the repo >> I would prefer commits generated with git format-patch. Could

Re: [RP] [RFC v2] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
Mathieu OTHACEHE writes: > Drop deprecated xinerama support and replace it with xrandr. > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu OTHACEHE > --- > > Hi. > > I forget to rebase my patch on top of master, so here is v2. Erm, you may have to do it again, since I've

Re: [RP] [RFC] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Mathieu, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:19:35AM +0100, Mathieu OTHACEHE wrote: > "It is probably better to view RandR as a superset of Xinerama > at this point and use it in preference to Xinerama where both are present." > > So I guess you can do whatever was possible on xinerama with xrandr, >

Re: [RP] [RFC] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Mathieu OTHACEHE
Hi Axel, Quoting xrandr protocol document [1]: "It is probably better to view RandR as a superset of Xinerama at this point and use it in preference to Xinerama where both are present." So I guess you can do whatever was possible on xinerama with xrandr, even on workstation scenario. I can

Re: [RP] [RFC] Add xrandr support

2016-11-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:16:58PM +0100, Mathieu OTHACEHE wrote: > Drop deprecated xinerama support and replace it with xrandr. While I'd be very happy to see xrandr support in Ratpoison, I don't think that it's already time to drop Xinerama support. While xrandr is very popular with