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RandR Support on XFree86 4.3
Gentu writes "Great news from our favorite windowing system: [Hewlett-Packard] engineers committed a new extension to XFree86, called RandR. XFree86 4.3 (to be released in late 2002/early 2003), will have the ability to truly resize (not via the pseudo-resize CNTRL+[+/-] command), rotate, reflect and change the refresh rate of each screen of an X display on the fly. And KDE seems to be the first desktop environment to add support for the RandR extension."
Now if only I could change the monitor resolution of my linux box without editing a text file....
> Ok, that is where I'm starting to laugh. X11 is S.L.O.W. slow. Windows GDI is lightning fast. I can click the start menu and it draws instantly. I can still see Gnome and KDE menus paint across the screen chunkily -- yes, this is on a P-4 machine with whizzy graphics cards, a gig of RAM, etc. And don't blame it on the graphics card manufacturers for releasing no or shitty drivers for Linux. (I didn't say you did, but that's the usual excuse around here.) Windows can wipe my ass too, but the capability to do that well hasn't been written into it. Yet.
That doesn't make sense. I can play modern games like rtcw, quake3, and ut2k3 in both Linux and Windows. KDE 3.1beta2 and WinXP are about the same speed on my box too (athlonXP 2200+, 512mb ram). Either you are lying or have some misconfiguration problems.
I've got a LCD display that can rotate 90 degrees so it ends up with a resolution of 768x1024. I like the 3:4 profile better than the 4:3 (maybe because I liked my blit)
The problem is that the speed of the thing in the rotate mode is so slow. Modern graphics hardware seems to prefer loading things at the upper left and working towards the right and then down. The rotated drivers I've seen so far seems to do the same thing on a pixel level and its so slow...
Once this takes off, then I'll need to find a display I can rotate that has 1024 pixels accross. 768 just isn't enough for way too many web pages.
Yeah, let's all get pissed off about an alpha version of a new feature of a KDE release that won't happen until next year because the X extension hasn't even been bundled into a release yet. We all know that as soon as something is checked into CVS it never changes, that's the great thing about CVS. Now, let's all write furious posts about it. Fuckin' KDE.
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shows that the display dialog for resizing windows will also include the dimensions in milimeteres!
I'd assume it's in milimeters, becuase an Australian did the screen shot. An American would get in proper Imperial units, like any good British colony should. (-: