[ANNOUNCE] pixman release 0.17.8 now available

2010-02-24 Thread Soeren Sandmann
A new pixman release 0.17.8 is now available. This is a development snapshot leading up to a stable 0.18.0 release. = Trapezoids = This release contains a change to the behavior of a1 trapezoids. When an edge of a trapezoid falls exactly on a sample point, the point now is considered inside the

Re: Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:05:42AM -0500, paul rogers wrote: My system(s) is LFS based. I think it's time to upgrade. My 6.8.2 is brmonolithic, and I certainly see the advantage of not being required to brdownload the whole thing just to get some updated parts, particularly bras I'm on

[Q] Cylindrical Desktop

2010-02-24 Thread Pat Kane
I have a stock Ubuntu 9.0.4 workstation that just got a second graphics card and LCD panel, both displays work as one large Gnome desktop. My problem is that I want the main part of the desktop in the center of my desk and the extended part on the left side -- so in the Display Preferences I had

[RE]Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread paul rogers
>wget -r -np http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/src/everything/ Alas, the occasional high-speed access I'll have would be using a friend's XP system--no wget, AFAIK. So there IS no single tarball bundle? Bummer! paulgrog...@lycos.com TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) Not

Re: [RE]Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Harris
On 2010-02-24 12:59, paul rogers wrote: wget -r -np http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/src/everything/ Alas, the occasional high-speed access I'll have would be using a friend's XP system--no wget, AFAIK. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm Or just use your favourite download

How to increase DPI on Compaq Mini 702EA (1024x600) Ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-24 Thread Jon
I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 (latest) on Compaq Mini 702EA (1024x600). The text is very small in Firefox and the rest of the desktop due to the high DPI of the display panel (118dpi). Therefore I would like to increase the DPI setting, so that text,icons, web pages are rendered

Re: How to increase DPI on Compaq Mini 702EA (1024x600) Ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/02/24 15:32 (GMT-0500) Jon composed: I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 (latest) on Compaq Mini 702EA (1024x600). The text is very small in Firefox and the rest of the desktop due to the high DPI of the display panel (118dpi). Therefore I would like to increase the DPI setting,

Re: Problems Compiling from Git

2010-02-24 Thread Mike Lothian
On 23 February 2010 18:07, Mike Lothian m...@fireburn.co.uk wrote: On 19 February 2010 06:14, ace102 mgav...@juno.com wrote: What kind of hardware are building it for? If you're using nVidia(and their binary) you can use --disable-glx with the xserver .config/autogen.sh and you won't need to

randr: reverse panning

2010-02-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
Sorry for not following the latest RandR developments, but let me ask. Does RandR support setting a monitor mode to NxM resolution (e.g. its native resolution) while setting its 'effective pixel resolution' (a term just invented by me) to PxR where P = N and/or R = M? In other words, can I have a

Frozen Display

2010-02-24 Thread ANDREW NGO
Hi, We've got a (large) Java Swing application that's demonstrating some very strange behavior. If the computer running it is left idle (no mouse or keyboard input) for a sufficiently long time (varies between an hour or so and a couple of days), the Swing display sometimes stops updating