generic display reprobing at user's request
Ryan Underwood
nemesis-lists at icequake.net
Wed Dec 8 21:28:34 PST 2004
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:08:07PM -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?
Yeah, I thought it was disgusting, but less disgusting than tying it to
a VT switch. Hotplug wouldn't help you here because the hardware
doesn't generate an event, but a WM key combination would work fine.
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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>
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