Remove randr 1.1 support in xfce4-display-settings?

[Alex Wolfson]

On 07/27/2010 05:41 PM, Alex Wolfson wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 05:30 PM, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:06:06PM +0000, Alex Wolfson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Auke Kok <auke <at> foo-projects.org> writes:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Nick Schermer wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 2010/7/4 Jérôme Guelfucci <jeromeg <at> xfce.org>:
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I propose that we drop the randr 1.1 only support from our display stack. It
>>>>>> brings very little benefits as (afaik) it is only useful for proprietary
>>>>>> drivers which also offer their own graphical tool to handle displays AND it
>>>>>> is a real maintenance burden and slows development (testing all scenarios is
>>>>>> really annoying).
>>>>>>           
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I'd say go for it and focus on randr 1.2, the closed source driver
>>>>> have custom tools (which work a lot better for them) afaik.
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> yep. just kill it. That's what my colleagues would say :)
>>>>
>>>> Auke
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I was trying to fix that display resolution settings, 
>>> by porting xrandr code to xfce. 
>>> I have very limited xfce experience so what Jerone is doing is of cause
>>> better. 
>>> I had ported display setting confirmation dialog from gnome so far,
>>>  and then realized that randr 1.2 support is disabled in
>>> dialogs/display-settings/main.c
>>> /* not available yet */
>>> #undef HAS_RANDR_ONE_POINT_TWO
>>>  
>>> So when this new Jerone's code will be available?
>>> Can I wait for it (which is of cause preferable) or have to implement some
>>> through away solution because I need it for the customer soon? 
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Alex 
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Hi,
>>
>> The code is already available on git.xfce.org, in the
>> 'xrandr-display-settings' branch of xfce4-settings (not merged into
>> master yet). You can get it and build it, it should work; it's not
>> widely tested though, no more than three or four people afaik…
>>
>> You can already set many settings in the UI, except the output positions
>> and which screen is primary (but xfconf-query or xrandr can be used for
>> that anyway). However, Jerôme is in vacation with limited connectivity
>> until the end of the week (iirc), and I don't think the new UI is ready,
>> thus you'll still have the "old-not-so-shiny" one with a treeview and
>> some comboboxes. ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lionel
>>
>>   
>>     
> Hi Lionel,
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick response.
> I will give it a try and post the feedback on the list.
> BTW this is for the ARM based board.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Alex
>
>   
Hi,

I build the new code for the ARM board, that runs xfce 4.6.4 (at least
the name of the package is xfce4-settings-4.6.4)

1. xfce4-display-settings shows 4 available resolutions, xrandr shows 6
2. I can not change the resolution from the gui. Confirmation dialog
appears, but nothing happened.
3. If I change resolution using xrandr and then run
xfce4-display-settings, gui shows current resolution correctly

I also built xfce4-settings for x86 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 bit) but gui
did not start. I guess something needs to be installed, or xfce gui can
not coexist with gnome?

Are those issues known? I built with -g -O0 so hopefully I will be able
to debug it tomorrow

Thanks,

Alex W.

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