[Xpert]Xinerama api

2001-12-15 Thread Bj|rn Englund
First of all, is there any documentation for Xinerama except the Xinerama.h file? From what I've seen there is no way to get the physical size of the monitors that are used for the different screens in Xinerama. Is this true? If so, will it be fixed/added? The normal X call only report the size

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama api

2001-12-15 Thread Bj|rn Englund
Sat Dec 15 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Bj|rn Englund wrote: First of all, is there any documentation for Xinerama except the Xinerama.h file? Pretty much. That is pretty much it? So there are no plans to write up a man page or so? I didn't see any man page. I can

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama api

2001-12-15 Thread Bj|rn Englund
Sat Dec 15 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: So, it's going to change at sometime when there's an official API. XFree86 will be backwards compatible with the old protocol but the sample implementation and all the commercial vendors won't acknowledge the current protocol. You just have to

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama api

2001-12-15 Thread Bj|rn Englund
Sat Dec 15 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Is the size of the screen actually useful? DPI seems more useful, but even that doesn't make sense with XFree86's virtual desktops. DPI or size is ok, easy to convert between if one has the resolution. Important that one get separate DPI for X