[olug] Xwindows RandR extension

[Adam Haeder]

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Sure most of you saw this on /. a few months back. The RandR extension is
now in the latest X Windows. I just loaded SuSe9 on a system at home and
have been playing around with it. Basically, it lets you rotate and
resize your desktop on the fly. I got jealous of an employee of mine who
had 3 monitors under XP, one of them on an Nvidia card that let him tilt
the monitor 90 degress and work in portrait mode. Very nice for coding.

So I did this at home with 2 17" monitors. I like it, but 17" seems too
small for this (when on their sides, they seem too narrow). Also, the
randr extensions are mutually incompatable with Xinerama, so I can't drag
apps or windows across the screens.

I really like the Sax X frontend in Suse; I never had to touch my
XF86Config file.

You can see screenshots here:
http://www.haederfamily.org/desktop1.jpg
http://www.haederfamily.org/desktop2.jpg

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Adam Haeder
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AIM Institute
adamh at omaha.org
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Irv Cobb wrote:

> CM Miller wrote:
>
> >Opted for Knoppix 3.3, and had some problems here.
> >The NTFS drive and my thumbdrive were recognized but
> >when it came time to move data, even using the GUI,
> >could not write.  Chmod ugo+rwx on whatever device or
> >directory was setup right, but did not work.
> >
> In Knoppix, you have make a drive writeable. There's an option on the
> KDE right mouse button for that. In some cases you still can't write,
> then sudo konqueror from the konsole will work.
>
> Irv
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