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RandR Support on XFree86 4.3

Posted by michael on from the rest-and-recreation dept.

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."

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  1. Wow, I can change the refresh rate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's wonderful, I'm glad to see it's taken this long for a basic function like that to exist. Way to go! Now, if they could just make Xfree86 NOT be a bloated piece of glued together bullshit, then, this would really be news worthy!

  2. You Copy and Want Karma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You got it!

    Just copy and paste verbatim from any source, and you got that sheep semen, I mean sweet karma!

  3. About fucking time by ttyRazor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sure took someone long enough to even seriously attempt this.

  4. Now if only.... by MrMiyagi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now if only I could change the monitor resolution of my linux box without editing a text file....

  5. when, oh god when by l33t-gu3lph1t3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    when, oh god when, will it be possible to just open up a little window and change your refresh rate, display adaptor settings, etc, in linux, right from the start? I mean, c'mon, *windows* has it...

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    1. Re:when, oh god when by PhysicsScholar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Yes, Windows has it, but their company is also comprised of successful fathers, mothers, professors, teachers, researchers, and volunteers and has $40 billion stored away in reserves.

      They make great products that are the best in their field. They continually profit. They continually dominate and innovate.

      Open Source and Free Software are nothing more than Friday night hobby projects by either unemployed basement-dwellers or students who'd rather stare at code on a CRT monitor than get some pussy that night.

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  6. mwhahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GNOME > KDE ... KDE people are rejected visiual basic programmers.

  7. Re:Just how bad is X? by fault0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    > 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.

  8. Will I be able to rotate the screen? by thogard · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    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.

  9. Re:This is Silly... by cjpez · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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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  10. Re:This is Silly... by dvdeug · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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. (-: