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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. This is great and all... by Francis+Avila · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but X, for all its extensibility, is getting long in the tooth. X is the x86 of the software world: we've squeezed it much, much farther than the original design intended, and it still functions servicably--but who really admires it in the abstract? Both are ugly.

    In the meantime, I do longingly await Fresco/Berlin. Now that's nice. Now only if it were usable...

    Let us now all observe a brief moment of reverent and mournful silence to mourn the NeWS that might have been....

  2. my question is... by dalutong · · Score: 1, Troll

    when will the ati mobility 3d LR work? all i get with X 4.2 is my screen slowly turning white. it is cool and all... but i'd rather be able to use accelerated (not vesa) X.

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  3. WIY by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The source code is all there - write it yourself. Isn't that the standard open source rejoinder to everything? :)

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  4. Thanks god, you're catching up by melted · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's been 7 years after it was intoduced in Win95. Five more years and we'll get some working plug&play monitor support.
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