On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:05 +0100, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > Peter Clifton <[email protected]> writes: > > > Should gnome-settings-daemon be avoiding retaliating to a notification > > by requesting XRRGetScreenSizeRange, or should XRRGetScreenSizeRange > > avoid calling a procedure which will emit another notification? > > I'm pretty sure gnome-settings-daemon is doing what it's supposed to > do here. RandR is designed so that clients are supposed to update > their information in response to notifications. It's been a while > since I looked at it though. > > I don't think XRRGetScreenSizeRange should generate notifications.
Probably not, but since XRRGetScreenSizeRange turns out to be an expensive operation (it causes the Intel driver to re-probe its outputs), its also not ideal that it is being called for every single change in backlight brightness, and for other non-related Xrandr events. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
