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On 2011-01-04, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> What do people think should happen? Do we even support xf86vm? It seems to
> have too many problems. the scrolling would make most apps using two monitors
> virtually useless. Dropping xf86vm would mean no modes or mode setting
> available in places where xrandr isn't available (real xinerama for example,
> the nvidia driver seems to disable xrandr when multi-head+xinerama is
> enabled).
AFAIK there is no solution. If you want, feel free to restrict
XF86VidMode to single monitor use.
X really, really doesn't want you to change the resolution. Even with
randr, it is going against the grain, otherwise the API would have some
provision to automatically restore the display mode on exit.
So, I wouldn't worry to much about it.
See also my and Matthew's independently arrived-at ideas for "emulating"
fullscreen modes. We did it for non-matching colour depths in A4, we
can do it for non-matching resolutions modes in A5.
Peter