Virtual desktop gone

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Fri Jun 29 10:07:30 PDT 2007


 >|>  >|>  >|> > Hi. I've upgraded my ASUS S5N ultraportable to Fedora 7. I
 >|>  >|used to
 >|>  >|>  >|> > specify i810 as the driver but now that hangs up and I
 >|>  >|switched to
 >|>  >|>  >|> > intel. But I no longer get a virtual desktop, despite:
 >|>  >|>  >|> >
 >|>  >|>  >|> >                   Virtual   1600 1200
 >|>  >|>  >|> >
 >|>  >|>  >|> > in the Display section of xorg.conf.
 >|>  >|>  >|>
 >|>  >|>  >|  It got removed from xserver and has to be reimplemented
 >|(along with
 >|>  >|>  >|xrandr-1.2 awarness) in window managers.
 >|>  >|>
 >|>  >|> You're saying this a feature, not a bug? Where do I complain
 >|about this?
 >|>  >|> The virtual desktops of KDE etc. require clicking and are an
 >|utter PITA
 >|>  >|> compared to the traditional smooth-scrolling X virtual desktop.
 >|>  >|>
 >|>  >|
 >|>  >|File a bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org).  It shouldn't be too hard
 >|>  >|to implement.  You'd basically just add an adjustframe() hook to the
 >|>  >|crtc functions and then add the proper server side code to support
 >|it.
 >|>  >| This was discussed a while ago, but there wasn't much interest.
 >|>
 >|> I don't understand. Where is the bug? The first reply suggested that the
 >|> feature has to be implemented in window managers (every X window manager
 >|> from twm on?) Your reply suggests that "server side" code is needed too.
 >|> I'm finding that the older i810 *driver* implements the feature. Where
 >|> is the discussion you mention? A search at bugs.freedesktop.org doesn't
 >|> turn up anything relevant.
 >|
 >|Right.  You should file a bug if you think this is something that
 >|should be implemented.  It works with old servers and old drivers.
 >|randr-1.2 enabled drivers do no implement virtual screens where the
 >|crtc moves around inside a larger desktop.  That feature could be
 >|implemented but it's not at the moment.  When keithp was working on
 >|the new randr 1.2 specification there were several discussions about
 >|moving crtcs and bounding boxes similar to what's implemented in the
 >|old drivers or mergedfb capable drivers.

Sorry for being so clueless but the first step at bugs.freedesktop.org
is to "pick a product". What "product" is the new randr specification
(or would the putative implementation be) part of: Specifications?
xorg? XStandards? If I search for "randr", the first bug returned lists
"xserver" as the product but that's not even listed as far as I can see. 

Bob T.



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