RandR Support on XFree86 4.3

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Posted by michael on Sunday October 20, 2002 @11:52AM 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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First post by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 11:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

God is watching
BUSH = RECESSION by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 11:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

War Deaths in Europe
by decade

1900-1910: 5,000
1911-1920: 20,000,000
1921-1930: 3,000,000
1931-Sept.1939: 500,000
1940-1949: 49,000,000
1951-1960: 100,000
1961-1970: 2,000
1971-1980: 2,500
1981-1990: 3,000
1991-2000: 260,000
Haven't you heard ? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 11:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The cool thing now is to get Last Post. Loser.
bloated piece of glued together bullshit by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 12:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

+1 Informative
Debian support by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 12:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1 entry found for debian. debian <operating system> /deb'ee`n/, *not* /deeb'ee`n/ The non-profit volunteer organisation responsible for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian's Linux distribution is dedicated to free and open source software; the main goal of the distribution is to ensure that one can download and install a fully-functional operating system that is completely adherent to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, and was sponsored by the Free Software Foundation from November 1994 to November 1995. The name Debian is a contraction of DEB(ra) and IAN Murdock. Debian's packaging system (dpkg) is similar to other popular packaging systems like RPM. There are over 2200 packages of precompiled software available in the main (free) section of the Debian 2.1 distribution alone -- this is what sets Debian apart from many other Linux distributions. The high quality and huge number of official packages (most Debian systems' /usr/local/ remains empty -- almost everything most Linux users want is officially packaged) are what draw many people to use Debian. Another unique aspect to the Debian project is the open development; pre-releases are made available from Day 1 and if anyone wishes to become a Debian developer, all that is needed is proof of identification and a signed PGP or GPG key. There are over 400 Debian developers all around the world -- many developers have never met face-to-face, and most development talks take place on the many mailing lists and the IRC network. Home (http://www.debian.org/). Debian Linux archives (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian). (1999-02-23) So urce: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe
Re:This is what you need to do when things go wron by Warped-Reality · 2002-10-20 13:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

at least it's not a goatse redir

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Re:KDE not first! by g0at · 2002-10-20 15:53 · 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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dvorak layout by cafelatte · 2002-10-20 19:51 · 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
Re:when, oh god when by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-20 21:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Even if you don't believe in a diety, God is still a name, and should therefore be capitalised.