On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I spent some time on screen management in KWin today and got it to the > point > where it doesn't fail any more no matter what I try. So please everyone > using > multiple screens and especially dynamically plug in and out, please give a > try > to the patch set in [1]. Please ensure to have latest master as it > contains a > crash fix for a crash triggered by the patch set. > > Short summary of the changes in the patch set: > * uses XRandR instead of QDesktopWidget > * uses KWin internal information about overall screen geometry instead of > relying on the information in the X11 screen structure. > > The second part is the code I added today. My testing showed that > unplugging a > screen gives us proper XRandR events so KWin's internal is up to date, but > the > X11 screen information is wrong. So when we partially used the one and > partially the other the rendering was just horribly broken. Now it's all > based > on the KWin internal information and I couldn't get the rendering broken > any > more. > > When changing screens please be patient. It takes time to settle the > changes. > Especially plasmashell takes quite some time on my system to render > correctly > again. > > I hope that it doesn't fail for others and we can get the changes in to > improve the situation. > > Cheers > Martin > > [1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117614/ Hi Martin, I just applied your patch, seems to work so far. I'll tell you if it breaks :D. Aleix
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