RandR bugs

[Jim Gettys]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 01:06 +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> > OK, I did it. MergedFB works now with rotation, switchable - as usual -
> > at run-time. And my brain hurts. This was, so say the least, a logical
> > challange with all that panning, hw cursor, video and other stuff.
> > 
> > Now if only the window managers were smart enough to re-query xinerama
> > at rotation-changes (without a size-change at the same time).
> > 
> > But I guess RandR + Xinerama setups aren't quite usual (given the fact
> > that if X.org's own Xinerama is active, RandR is disabled).
> 
> Ah... with Aaron Plattner's libXrandr patch from sep 30, KDE works
> nicely. Cute!

Everyone who makes this work ends up with a headache: I had a similar
reaction when making rotation of input devices work properly.  Too many
coordinate systems...

BTW, has anyone generated a patch for XAA for this?  There is an example
in the kdrive framework that rotates the input device coordinates
appropriately that can be cribbed from....
				- Jim