[Xcb] Notification on resolution changes

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt<doomster at knuut.de> wrote:
> What I'm looking for is an elegant way to handle changes to the
> screen's resolution. I could simply poll this value, but that seems kind of
> ugly to me. Any better ideas?

If you select for StructureNotify on the root window then you'll get
standard ConfigureNotify events whenever the root window's size
changes.

Better would be to use the RANDR extension (which would also let you
grok and handle multiple monitor setups), but might be more work.

-- Nathaniel