> I'm sorry I don't have anything to offer on this, except to request > that the Xorg developers bring back Virtual capability before the > next release of Xorg. I think this is an important and frequently > used feature. > It's certainly important enough for me to try and sort out the black art that is X programming, anyway :-)
The previous util for the eeePC - that mine is based upon - directly manipulates the framebuffer location via the GPU registers and it doesn't play nicely with X/hardware cursors as a result. Obviously, it also doesn't work on different hardware. I only have the one PC to test on, but seeing as all the util uses is Xlib, the xf86vidmode extension and randr to re-jig the screen size, it should work for anyone else as well. Which is why I'm trying to make it look a bit less hackish. If I can sort it out, I'll let it into the wild, and all the X dev's can breathe a sigh of relief as they won't be continually pestered by confused users wondering why they dropped a useful feature from X. As it is, my util does work at the moment, it just seems to be a bit of a hack having to create a new mode and switch to it, just to get a bigger virtual desktop. Surely there's a way of telling the server that the root window is now x by y pixels - randr obviously does it when it rejigs the screen to fit a few different-sized monitors in. I guess I'll have to go code-trawling and hope that it's relatively simple. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
