Re: [AD] More X Mode Setting

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On 2011-01-17, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On January 17, 2011, Peter Wang wrote:
> > I've had a look at the NVCtrl library (it is open source, MIT-style).
> > It seems we won't need to duplicate *too* much code to check if TwinView
> > is used.  Alternatively we could just run "nvidia-settings -q TwinView".
> > I should be able to work on that later today.
> 
> Of course this assumes that the fglrx driver's BigDesktop crap doesn't do 
> similar things (I think it might). I haven't tested it at all though. So just 
> using the NV-CONTROL extension isn't really going to help with that.
> 
> The reason I went with comparing xinerama's screen count against xrandr's is 
> because it was a pretty generic way of doing it. It will always catch the 
> broken platforms.

Yeah, you're probably right that it's not worth it.  Never mind.

Will you add the al_grab_mouse function or shall I?  I can write the
configurable key binding part.

Peter




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