On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:37:00PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: >On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:56:11PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>Le dim 25 jan 2004 18:31:17 GMT, Andrew C Aitchison a tapoté sur son clavier : >>> First working hack at >>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.c.aitchison/VTprop.patch >> >>I would rather name the property CONTROL_VT (why the "XFree86" prefix ?) >> >>It will be resetted at regeneration, won't it ? >>I would hence have this code go in the >>for (i = 0; i < xf86NumScreens; i++) >>loop later, or even in xf86CreateRootWindow() (which, btw, erases >>properties, I'm wondering how this doesn't affect your hack) >> > >Yes, it does get reset at regeneration, because xf86CreateRootWindow() >frees the properties. The only other plaace this is currently used is >xf86SetDDCproperties(), and it is typically not called at server >regeneration either. Perhaps xf86CreateRootWindow() needs to >be modified to not clear the property list?
It turns out that it is more complicated than just not freeing them. I think that xf86RegisterRootWindowProperty() needs to be modified to store the information in a static form so that the properties can be re-created by xf86CreateRootWindow() for each generation. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
