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."

Comments

What? No more hacking XF86Config

[mhesseltine]

Now how will I prove my 3733T skillz?

Re:What? No more hacking XF86Config

[Anonymous Coward]

Now how will I prove my 3733T skillz?

Your eteet skills?

The trolls aren't what they used to be.

Re:What? No more hacking XF86Config

[Libor Vanek]

Hack /etc/sendfile.cf!

RandR?

[jaxdahl]

Why not just call it Randy.. that's what ppl will call it when viruses start infecting linux and randomly changing the window aspects on April 1.

Re:This is not a rhetorical question.

[Trusty Penfold]

It brings new life to tired, old, porn?

Huh

[Graspee_Leemoor]

What a rip off! Turns out this rotate feature is not a free rotate but fixed 90 degree increments!

Pfff! And I wanted to have my aterm at a weird angle.

graspee

Re:Huh

[EvilCabbage]

I can sell you a wedge for your chair..

For an extra $79.95, you can also get acess to technical support for your chair, until such time that Chair XP becomes available. That one will have wheels... honest.

Re: This is not a rhetorical question.

[Black Parrot]

> Why would I want my desktop rotated and/or reflected (which I presume to mean "mirrored" or "backwards")?

Leonardo requested it hundreds of years ago.

Mirroring

[csnydermvpsoft]

Mirroring support... I can imagine the pranks already...

Unsuspecting boss: Eeeeek! My computer just got a virus! Fix it!

Me: Sure... [types a command]... all fixed.

Boss: That was amazing! What would I ever do without you?

Me: About that raise I was asking about...

Does this mean I get colour cycling in 32-bit?

[Tommer]

I'd really love to run XaoS in 8-bit mode and use colour cycling while still having a 32-bit visual
for everything else. Is this good enough for that?

Re:This is not a rhetorical question.

[scotch]

The rotation is also good if you fall over and can't get up. Change the rotation and keep on hacking as you lay otherwise helpless on the floor.

What a great feature!

[TheSHAD0W]

Coders everywhere can always use more R&R. This means we won't have to offer additional vacation time.

Re:Just how bad is X?

[cpeterso]

Which means Apple may have a Unixish personality of their Mach core, but out of the box, no Unix GUI tools work.

Good point. The Mac has no GUI tools and Unix's GUI tools are world-renowned. Mac users are clamoring to use those Unix GUI tools. or was that vice versa?

Rotate and Resize

[certron]

OK, maybe there is something wrong with me, but all I can think of with rotate and resize is the following:

Rotate screen to view centerfold...
Resize pants.

I'm a bad bad person. :-)

Don't do it!

[stefanlasiewski]

EvilCabbage is a fraud! The product he sells is a rip-off. I bought ChairME from him 2 years ago, but the chair just flipped over and my butt smacked the floor hard, which is where I'm typing this article from now....

Re:Don't do it!

[EvilCabbage]

EvilCabbage is a fraud! The product he sells is a rip-off. I bought ChairME from him 2 years ago, but the chair just flipped over and my butt smacked the floor hard, which is where I'm typing this article from now....

No, no.. thats just an undocumented 'feature'.

Its designed to.. erm.. improve end user agility. :)

other boss pranks ...

[taniwha]

I used to work somewhere where we designed video cards for Macs - the engineering group was known for pranks and when it was your birthday you were fair game.

Anyway it was the boss's birthday and the night before he carefully locked his office and set traps in the door so he could tell if anyone had been in .... the next morning he comes in, everything seems OK, he checks the door, his chair, his desk, doesn't find anything ... sits down to work with his computer .... nolthing happens .... about 1/2 an hour later he realises his screen is slowly getting greener and greener ... aha he thinks looks in his system folder, removes a couple of suspicious INITs and reboots, it comes right ..... about 1/2 and hour later kit starts going green again .... he pulls some more stuff, reboots again, but no luck .... he's just about to reformat his disk and reload the OS when lunch came around and we explained ....

Of course reloading everything wouldn't have done him any good ... we'd burned him a custom ROM for his graphics card

elgooG

[foobrain]

Now we'll be able to use elgooG easily!

Re:This is Silly...

[Anonymous Coward]

An American would get in proper Imperial units, like any good British colony should. (-:

Hey Limey, next time the Germans want to invade your asses we're gonna let 'em!