From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4E9p-0006pg-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BA6EE0336; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43964E0336 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L4E9j-00033t-Qh for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:39 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:39 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kde4, xorg, xf86-video-ati/radeon, and multi-panel display Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fe609fa7-1900-4a4c-9c14-eb27458756f3 X-Archives-Hash: d2f014198c67a6819352b9089d7134b7 Beso posted d257c3560811230338m78e3f60bg40754ac934ea0025@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:54 +0000: > if you put your fb as a line input for the script it would be more > adaptable than is now. but it's a good script. Well, there's a balance between simple and adaptable. One of my goals=20 was to keep the number of parameters to a minimum. However, if I had=20 really intended it for public use (as I've basically setup my kernel=20 scripts to be, now), I'd have setup a config file and read the=20 framebuffer size from it. Of course, I'd have the various resolution=20 choices setup in the config file as well, if I were doing it that way, as= =20 well as the various xrandr output interface names (VGA1, DVI1, etc). I'd= =20 have abstracted out the stacked relationship to the config file as well,=20 making side-by-side and option, and may have allowed setting the default=20 position to the four corners and centered on the four edges (much like=20 kde3's kicker panel positions), as well as centered and possibly=20 arbitrary, as well. But when the positioning thing didn't work I kind of lost my motivation,=20 as I could neither fully debug it nor use it as intended, so I didn't do=20 much to it after that, except update the hard-coded resolutions for my=20 pair of LCDs, when I got them. But... it's a reasonable start (proof of concept, working demo) for=20 someone with reasonable bash skills, who has a system where the xrandr=20 position functionality works as documented, so he can test and debug if=20 necessary that bit of it. Feel free! =3D:^) BTW, I didn't document it when I posted, but consider that script to be=20 in the public domain. That gives anyone who wishes to improve it the=20 freedom to choose whatever license they want (preferably freedomware, of=20 course, maybe MIT, since that's the license xorg uses and it'd be rather=20 pointless without that), for their improved version. > i think i'll attach it over a hotkey. if i manage to > have it attached to a hal event it would be even better... thanks for > it. I hadn't thought about a hal event... Interesting idea, tho my=20 configuration here is a reasonably stationary desktop, so there's little=20 reason to think of the hal trigger. But maybe when I get my netbook=20 (Acer Aspire One) setup with Gentoo... we'll see. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman