Re: [ANNOUNCE] libXi 1.4.99.1

2011-11-09 Thread Russell Shaw
On 09/11/11 12:16, Peter Hutterer wrote: A month late but I just noticed that I never sent an announcement out for this. libXi is the first snapshot for XI 2.1 support. At this point I consider it unlikely that any major protocol changes will happen to the smooth scrolling support. If you're

Dri2 buffer format

2010-11-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, How should the format of a DRI2 buffer be determined? http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/dri2proto/dri2proto.txt DRI2ATTACH_FORMAT { attachment: CARD32 format: CARD32 } The DRI2ATTACH_FORMAT describes an attachment and the associated format. 'attachment'

Re: XInput

2010-11-04 Thread Russell Shaw
On 05/11/10 10:21, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:35:29PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: In XInput2, when i get a XI_HierarchyChanged event after plugging in another mouse, is there a way to get a unique identifier for each device such as a brand and model number? no, the device

Re: Slow Radeon on upgrade

2010-11-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Justin P. Mattock wrote: On 11/02/2010 10:42 PM, Russell Shaw wrote: I commented out all of xorg.conf, but it didn't fix it. maybe try the ati driver instead of the radeonhd? Hi, I messed around with xorg.conf settings and tried reinstalling the old driver and xorg-core resulting

Re: Slow Radeon on upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Russell Shaw
I commented out all of xorg.conf, but it didn't fix it. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address:

Re: How to properly use XGrabKey to get a program hotkey

2010-10-27 Thread Russell Shaw
cheshirekow wrote: Hello, My goal is to have a program that sleeps in the background but can be activated by the user via some hotkey. From digging around the Xlib manual and the Xlib O'reilly manual, I gather that the correct way to to this is with XGrabKey. However my understanding of the

Re: Fullscreen windows - weird behaviour

2010-05-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: Hi, I have the following setup: ... Anybody got a clue what's going on there? You could add test code that uses XQueryTree() to find out why. http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/XQueryTree.html Hmm, I'm not sure if this

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Richard Brown wrote: Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 19:05:25 28.02.2010 UTC-05 when rbrown1...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: RB So of these disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are RB disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are RB disabled because, we

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
David Gerard wrote: On 1 March 2010 01:28, Richard Brown rbrown1...@gmail.com wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: What are you referring to by Ximage ? Ximage extension to the X server. It has been superceded by MIT shared memory. However, some ancient apps may still use it. It's not clear

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Martin Cracauer wrote: ... Anyway... I will also spend some time this week to test the available Window managers to see where they stand wrt xrandr and report back. I noticed that fvwm2 seems broken enough to not even get keyboard focus over to the added desktops, ever. I also don't

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Russell Shaw
David Bronaugh wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: *SNIP* You have plenty of time on your hands, don't you? This can mean only one thing: You have an idea to sell, in the hopes that people will jump on board and run with it and you won't have to do any work. I hate to disappoint you

Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications that only run on or close to the X server machine? With a unicode text widget, every time a character is entered, the line or paragraph(s) need to be

Re: Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:18:01 +1100 From: Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:04:41AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: One can make their own widget libraries based on Xlib, then write apps using the libraries. Nothing hard about that (hard

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Clemens Eisserer wrote: Man, don't have a job? Is your time worth anything to you? And by the way ... I've never read so many *strange* arguments in one discussion. (using shm ximage for normal drawing is bullshit) What do you suggest? I'd very much like to know. How do other toolkits draw

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:04:41AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: ... He doesn't want non-trivial widgets, he wants full-screen and a menu, remember? That's not something

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Clemens Eisserer wrote: Man, don't have a job? Is your time worth anything to you? And by the way ... I've never read so many *strange* arguments in one discussion. (using shm ximage for normal drawing is bullshit) What do you suggest? I'd very much like to know. How do other toolkits draw

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:13:23AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: This means abstracting everything with pointer indirections leading to slow Any performance problems you may have are not caused by excessive pointer dereferences. Not directly. In the context of widget kits

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Stone wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:41:04PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: One can do all that with their own libraries based on Xlib. I don't use any Xlib font functions. And how is your Gujerati and accessibility ... ? Non-existant, but the precise place and how it should be plugged in is defined for easy addition if required. I'm also not sure

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 29/01/2010 00:41, Russell Shaw a écrit : What i really meant was Forget existing widget toolkits. One can write their own that is much better than the existing ones, if you architect the thing right. Doing that is not a small job. Takes a lot of time just to think about

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 23:29:43 29.01.2010 UTC+11 when rjs...@netspace.net.au did gyre and gimble: RS xcb is designed to preserve the Xlib api. I prefer to architect RS things completely new and efficient. Laughed out loud. Sorry, could not resist it. I read, debug,

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Ven 29 janvier 2010 14:40, Russell Shaw a écrit : The right way is to make each font a smart font that is simply a C library plugin. In other words, you can't handle real-world fonts. Since those cost millions and can take months or even years to create (see

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Dirk De Becker wrote: Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be able to switch between

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. On the contrary, using

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: I18n text input

2010-01-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: For functions XkbLookupKeySym(), XLookupString(), XKeycodeToKeysym(), XKeysymToString etc, how can i tell if the keysym is a graphic printable character like a, or a control character such as Left (XK_Left) ? I need to tell automatically if it's

I18n text input

2010-01-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, For functions XkbLookupKeySym(), XLookupString(), XKeycodeToKeysym(), XKeysymToString etc, how can i tell if the keysym is a graphic printable character like a, or a control character such as Left (XK_Left) ? I need to tell automatically if it's a normal unicode character that can be printed

Visuals

2010-01-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do xpyinfo, i get 29 visuals the same: visual: visual id:0xdc class:TrueColor depth:24 planes available colormap entries:256 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xff, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification:8

Re: Constraining mouse cursor globally in xorg

2010-01-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Alex White wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but here goes.. I need to constrain the mouse cursor in xorg, to prevent it reaching an area of screen that is not visible to the user (don't ask). I've noticed that there is support for this within the x

Re: Ctrl+alt_bksp

2009-11-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Vandana Vuthoo wrote: Hi, I am having Xserver as v 1.6 on my intel atom board, some how ctrl + alt + bksp doesnot restart my X server, Even setting setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl-alt-bksp in xorg.conf doesnot help. Please provide you inputs. Underscores? setxkbmap -option

Logging out

2009-11-15 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In /etc/X11/xorg.conf i have: Section ServerFlags # Allow ctrl-alt-backspace Option DontZap false EndSection but ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work. (Recent xorg server from debian/unstable: Version: 2:1.6.4-2) How do i log out of X so the xdm screen comes up?

Large scale X

2009-05-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, If i have 1000 user accounts on one accounts server and dozens of X apps on another apps server, how can a user start an X app when they don't have an account on the apps server? (no user accounts at all on apps server) I'm thinking of traditional X where the users use dumb X terminals, and

XSetWMProperties

2009-05-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What's the xcb replacement for XSetWMProperties() ? ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Qt colormap problem

2009-04-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i run Qt gui apps on a recent X debian/unstable system, when the mouse cursor passes over a Qt window, the whole screen goes black with traces of some menu text still visible, and various widget colours of the Qt app go black too. I don't know if all Qt apps do this. The one that

Qt colormap problem

2009-04-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i run Qt gui apps on a recent X debian/unstable system, when the mouse cursor passes over a Qt window, the whole screen goes black with traces of some menu text still visible, and various widget colours of the Qt app go black too. I don't know if all Qt apps do this. The one that

Re: Up arrow key not working

2008-11-13 Thread Russell Shaw
Robin Cook wrote: I am using evdev. Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel evdev Option XkbLayout us Option XkbVariant dvorak Option XkbRules Xorg EndSection gnome keyboard config

Re: Building X

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:21PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I built X from git. I get a stippled background when X starts but the mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is working because i tested it with xev. I built and installed in this order

Re: Building X

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Keith Packard wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: You don't ask for the stipple though. It's the default. My point was that if you want to avoid the vintage X appearance, you'd likely start the X server with a black root window instead of the ugly stipple, and

Re: Building X

2008-09-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:21PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I built X from git. I get a stippled background when X starts but the mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is working because i tested it with xev. I built and installed in this order: commit