[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.4

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Hutterer
It's a week late but the silence on the list over the break didn't overly encourage me to tag 1.7.3.902 as final. Anyway, here it is, happy new year etc. Only two commits, with Alan's fix being the only one that should have any effect on users. Adam's commit only affects VNC. The ususal 5 week

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:47 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:26:40PM -0500, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/06/2010 08:04 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: The backtrace is pretty consistent with the following few lines: Program received signal SIGTERM, Terminated.

visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread allcoms
Hi! I have been looking for a tool for visually resizing and positioning X displays that is distribution neutral. I realise we have xrandr for listing and changing display resolutions and rotations but it doesn't seem to offer the ability to visually resize and position screens, a feature that is

libminitrue patch

2010-01-07 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Attached are two small patches to allow me opening a edid block through libminitru and to use differing compiler flags. kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org diff --git a/edid.c b/edid.c index bf8a565..076b714 100644 --- a/edid.c

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/06/2010 10:34 PM, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/06/2010 10:26 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: the module should work.. hopefully their the same arch's as for the next step: try starting the server from a TTY instead of through gdm (as stated by peter hutterer from the other post try this and

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Éric Piel
Op 07-01-10 11:51, allcoms schreef: Hi! I have been looking for a tool for visually resizing and positioning X displays that is distribution neutral. I realise we have xrandr for listing and changing display resolutions and rotations but it doesn't seem to offer the ability to visually

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Didier Spaier
Éric Piel wrote: Op 07-01-10 11:51, allcoms schreef: Hi! I have been looking for a tool for visually resizing and positioning X displays that is distribution neutral. I realise we have xrandr for listing and changing display resolutions and rotations but it doesn't seem to offer the ability

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 19:00 +0100, Didier Spaier wrote: Éric Piel wrote: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware user ;) So you don't want to use a toolkit, but you want

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/07/10 08:45, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/06/2010 10:34 PM, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/06/2010 10:26 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: the module should work.. hopefully their the same arch's as for the next step: try starting the server from a TTY instead of through gdm (as stated by peter hutterer

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 13:23:00 07.01.2010 UTC-05 when a...@nwnk.net did gyre and gimble: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware user ;) AJ So you don't want to use a

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Éric Piel
Op 07-01-10 19:00, Didier Spaier schreef: Éric Piel wrote: Op 07-01-10 11:51, allcoms schreef: Hi! I have been looking for a tool for visually resizing and positioning X displays that is distribution neutral. I realise we have xrandr for listing and changing display resolutions and

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread allcoms
Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? No, gnome-display-properties isn't sufficient to my needs as it does neither of the two features I am looking for which are: 1- Visual resizing (as in 'graphically' adjusting the screens outer borders) and 2-

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/07/2010 01:25 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp doing a quick google gave me this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/269931 but still don't see that this is the culprit. I read

per-keyboard user-defined X keymap and keyboard behaviour

2010-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
Hello folks, I often use my Thinkpad with an external keyboard. When I plug in the keyboard, it is initialised according to HAL with standard symbols. While I load a custom keymap from Xsession [0] and also call `xset r rate …` there, these settings do not take effect once I plug in the external

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/07/10 11:26, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/07/2010 01:25 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp doing a quick google gave me this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/269931 but still don't see that

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Ryan Daly d...@ctc.com wrote: On 01/07/2010 01:25 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp doing a quick google gave me this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/269931

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:25:33AM -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Bad news... I started X from a tty and still had it exit on me. The only thing worth noting from the output is below: Xorg.out The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Type ONE_LEVEL has 1

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/07/2010 05:30 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: waiting for X server to shut down ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log /Xorg.out I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp doing a quick google gave me this:

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/07/10 14:45, Ryan Daly wrote: On 01/07/2010 05:30 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: waiting for X server to shut down ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log /Xorg.out I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp doing a quick google

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ryan Daly d...@ctc.com wrote: On 01/07/2010 05:30 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: waiting for X server to shut down  ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log /Xorg.out I know it says these errors aren't fatal to the X server, but could they be causing me problems? as for xkbcomp

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.4

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Hutterer
It's a week late but the silence on the list over the break didn't overly encourage me to tag 1.7.3.902 as final. Anyway, here it is, happy new year etc. Only two commits, with Alan's fix being the only one that should have any effect on users. Adam's commit only affects VNC. The ususal 5 week

Re: per-keyboard user-defined X keymap and keyboard behaviour

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:35:07AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Hello folks, I often use my Thinkpad with an external keyboard. When I plug in the keyboard, it is initialised according to HAL with standard symbols. While I load a custom keymap from Xsession [0] and also call `xset r rate

Re: X11 XTEST Error when starting Xine

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Duda
On 01/04/2010 05:26 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: Hello I'm new here, and slightly afraid of making a fool of myself. I have diffed the libraries between a working machine and all have a binary match. There must be some meta-data file outside the libraries which return the results for

Re: per-keyboard user-defined X keymap and keyboard behaviour

2010-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
Thanks for taking the time to respond! also sprach Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net [2010.01.08.1608 +1300]: xkbcomp supports -I, but the xserver doesn't provide an option to set a custom include path. so your best bet is to run xkbcomp at runtime for xkb files outside the default