I remember mentioning it awhile back in the XF86 3.x days and the stock answers consisted of "No one really needs to change their color depth" and "Windows fakes it with overlays and translation routines" or some such.
Although, while I don't defend X's lack of ability, I can't remember the last time I've needed to change the color depth on any of my computers. I tend to set it and leave it.
You can. xrandr on the term, or krandrtray in KDE. There's probably gnome and other applet frontends as well. I'd quite like to see on-the-fly color depth changes though I understand that's far more difficult than resolution changes.
Then of course there's the old ctrl-alt-+ and - though I never cared much for the scrolling virtual desktop.
I remember a Showbiz Pizza that was quite similar to CEC. I was never entirely sure what relation they had if any. My younger sister had one of her single-digit birthday parties there, she's 22 now so it's been awhile.
Scott
Sounds like Distributed Multihead to me. DMX I think it's called, http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ here. I also seem to recall it being built into recentish Xorg builds, though I've never messed with it myself since I'm happy with my local multihead.
As to the no-reboot/no-restart-X issue, with the current state of the NVIDIA and ATI drivers I'd have loved to have been able to fiddle with them without having to restart X every time. I had a heck of a time getting everything compiled Just So to give me acceleration and proper graphics mode support. Every test I had to start and then kill X.
Don't know about Peoplesoft, but Mitel has several of their IP Softphone management and ACD E-mail management bits written in dotnet. And they're largely slow and bloated too.
Scott
I recently picked up a Nokia 6800 (shortly followed by a Nokia 6820, same but more compact) that flips out to a full qwerty keyboard and includes packet GPRS. I downloaded a little program called Idokorro Mobile SSH and it lets me do just that - ssh directly from the cell phone. Works well and has come in handy a couple times when my mail daemon has died unexpectedly. It's fun.
Incidentally, the 6820 also has a totally useless camera (352x188 resolution or some such), a somewhat lacking datebook, picky voice dial, and several other JoaTbMoN traits. I still love it but if I really needed the specialized traits it probably wouldn't serve very well. There's also a VNC client that'll work on it, but I'd hate to try to use it...
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Hence why I'd like to see it ;)
I remember mentioning it awhile back in the XF86 3.x days and the stock answers consisted of "No one really needs to change their color depth" and "Windows fakes it with overlays and translation routines" or some such.
Although, while I don't defend X's lack of ability, I can't remember the last time I've needed to change the color depth on any of my computers. I tend to set it and leave it.
You can. xrandr on the term, or krandrtray in KDE. There's probably gnome and other applet frontends as well. I'd quite like to see on-the-fly color depth changes though I understand that's far more difficult than resolution changes.
Then of course there's the old ctrl-alt-+ and - though I never cared much for the scrolling virtual desktop.
You know, I actually clicked on that too just to see if it went anywhere. I guess the variable applies to me ;)
I remember a Showbiz Pizza that was quite similar to CEC. I was never entirely sure what relation they had if any. My younger sister had one of her single-digit birthday parties there, she's 22 now so it's been awhile. Scott
Sounds like Distributed Multihead to me. DMX I think it's called, http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ here. I also seem to recall it being built into recentish Xorg builds, though I've never messed with it myself since I'm happy with my local multihead.
As to the no-reboot/no-restart-X issue, with the current state of the NVIDIA and ATI drivers I'd have loved to have been able to fiddle with them without having to restart X every time. I had a heck of a time getting everything compiled Just So to give me acceleration and proper graphics mode support. Every test I had to start and then kill X.
Don't know about Peoplesoft, but Mitel has several of their IP Softphone management and ACD E-mail management bits written in dotnet. And they're largely slow and bloated too. Scott
I recently picked up a Nokia 6800 (shortly followed by a Nokia 6820, same but more compact) that flips out to a full qwerty keyboard and includes packet GPRS. I downloaded a little program called Idokorro Mobile SSH and it lets me do just that - ssh directly from the cell phone. Works well and has come in handy a couple times when my mail daemon has died unexpectedly. It's fun.
Incidentally, the 6820 also has a totally useless camera (352x188 resolution or some such), a somewhat lacking datebook, picky voice dial, and several other JoaTbMoN traits. I still love it but if I really needed the specialized traits it probably wouldn't serve very well. There's also a VNC client that'll work on it, but I'd hate to try to use it...