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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. Re:This is what you need to do when things go wron by Warped-Reality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    at least it's not a goatse redir

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  2. Re:KDE not first! by g0at · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    2002-10-04 Havoc Pennington

    The guy's name is Havoc?

    I wonder if his efforts have just wreaked hav-- ah, forget it.

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  3. dvorak layout by cafelatte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've recently switched to the dvorak keyboard layout by editing the XF86Config file to include this line:

    Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"

    but when my girlfriend wants to use the qwerty layout, I boot into windows

    this would be a desirable on-the-fly feature for me