generic display reprobing at user's request

[Ryan Underwood]

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.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>