Hi Fred!
On 03/02/2020 21:15, Fred Kiefer wrote:
Sergii has written a great patch that will tremendously improve support for
multiple monitors in GNUstep by using the XRandR extension. There is a downside
to it though, this patch will also remove any multi screen support that was
there before without XRandR. So if you have a multi monitor setup and your
system won’t support XRandR we would like to hear from you and try to find a
solution that is acceptable for all sides. I hope that there is nobody in this
specific situation but it seems easier to ask in advance than to fix it later.
Sounds great.
First question - this refers only to X11, right? Multi-Monitor support
(or lack of) under windows are unaffected?
Second question - what was there "before" which would stop working, so
which multi-monitor support is "left out" ? A setup to test it.
Currently I use GNUstep and multi-monitor only in a setup with a Laptop
+ external screen, which means usually a relatively recent OS. Randr 1.2
has been around almost 10 years. If we don't require more modern
features, I probably won't hit these limits. A laptop without xrandr is
hard to sue, since only with it the external monitor can be dynamically
added/removed.
My more "esoteric" machines are single-monitor setups. Solaris 7 with
two Monitors would be a setup? I don't have setups like that.
Riccardo
