generic display reprobing at user's request

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:08 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:32 -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> 
> > 2) Provide a key combination that allows the user to tell the X server
> > to re-probe display devices and re-setup modes.  I like this better, but
> 
> Key combination?  Ugh.  Why not make an X extension for a "reconfigure"
> command, and then desktop developers or users can just bind that to
> whatever key combination they want in their WMs/key-handlers, and X
> configuration programs or hotplug scripts or whatever can use the
> extension whenever they feel is necessary?

Seems to me that xrandr could be a good place for this, as others have
suggested  within the past couple of days -- for example at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-December/004982.html
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