On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > And hopefully auto(re)configured, based on changing system behaviour and > > characteristics. > > Talking about this... what happens when I switch monitors? > Would it be possible to detect the switch, and reconfigure X on the fly, > changing the resolution if the monitor can't handle it.
That is theoretically possible now. You could take an app such as the ddcprobe which ships with some versions of redhat, and turn it into a daemon which rechecks the monitor by DDC every few minutes (this may cause the screen to blink, which the user might not like) and then use XFree86-VidModeExtension to change the video timings on the fly. From this week you could even use the RandR extension to change the virtual desktop size if appropriate. I don't know whether it would be possible for the server to monitor the monitor connection and notice a change without the screen blink of a DDC probe. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
