Re: RandR support in GNOME

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 19:22, 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)  

Hit Anders 'round the head to get a URL. He hacked one up.

> 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?

Yep, see Mark's mail.

> How does one change the resolution on the fly in generic X anyways?

Check 'xrandr'.

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>