On Sunday 04 April 2010 23:30:38 Zack Rusin wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2010 15:48:32 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > The amount of opportunities to tear your hair out in X.org land is near > > inifinite. > > Well, it's a lot like feeding a tiger - it's not that really difficult, > it's just a bit dangerous especially if you try to stuff the food down the > wrong hole. As you seemed to have been doing =)
Nice analogy. :) displayconfig was actually written at a time when xrandr was rotate and resize, and nothing more than that. At least those bits worked, more or less reliably. Well, the resize at least. Often. :) > It's worth to remember that X should be policy less, what and how it does > should really be done higher. You never want to change the X config, > especially nowadays when the there's really nothing there worth changing > and it's not like "hey, you've just started kpresenter, please restart X > so that new output config can take be in effect " is a good strategy > anyway. > > The output config should be stored as part of the KDE config (Kephal I > guess), and when I say output config I mean "when an output with this > identifier (and maybe even this exact edid) is connected we should do A" > where A is mirroring, setting up a new screen, doing nothing or doing > whatever user picked the first time this action was performed. Once you > know what you want to do, you simply use xrandr to actually do it. > > z That sounds sensible, yes. :) -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
