Virtual desktop gone

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/29/07, Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>  >|>  >|>  >|> > 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.

yeah, choose 'xorg'.

Alex