Re: RandR support in GNOME

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:22, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> By chance, will RandR be fully supported by 2.4 release?  
> 
> By RandR support I mean a capplet in Control Center that will
> actually allow you to change the resolution.  I think this would
> be a nice feature and probably not very difficult to be able to 
> include in 2.4 (just a guess, I don't know how RandR extension 
> actually works)  

	Yes, if someone writes it :-)

> In GNOME I know that we have partially implemented this but I
> don't know what that means.  Does that mean that if you change
> the resolution that apps "get it"?  Does GTK have an API for
> doing RandR already?

	GTK+ 2.2 introduced the "size_changed" signal on GdkScreen which the
panel (and Nautilus) reacts to by re-sizing. So yes, the apps that need
to, "get it".

Good Luck,
Mark.