Re: [E-devel] xrandr + epplet for DR 16 ?

[Felix M. <f.m...@we...>]

Am Monday 08 March 2004 23:29 schrieb Kim Woelders:
> Did you consider simply using different directories using -econfdir, as
> I previously suggested?

I did, but for this I would need to know the resolution before e is started=
,=20
and then call it from a wrapper script. After an automatic restart by the=20
epplet to be, the new resolution would be known, but I don't know how to=20
probe this from the command line on first startup. And e does this probe=20
anyway, so why not use it? And is there a way to tell e to restart with a=20
different confdir?

> Maybe the only things that need to differ are the saved window settings
> (...e_session-XXXXXX.snapshots.*)?

maybe, this remains to be seen. When I simply restarted e after a resolutio=
n=20
change, the backgrounds also weren't quite right. I don't know if that=20
information is stored in the same file.

> - When the resolution is changed using xrandr E detects this and
> restarts (or maybe just reconfigures?).
> I'm not familiar with RandR but I assume this requires handling of some
> new X events.
> Or did you intend to tell E to change the screen resolution and restart?

The latter. There's a command-line program for xrandr, it's quite simple to=
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use. I was thinking of converting this into an epplet that restarts e=20
whenever it changes the resolution. This nicely circumvents the=20
event-handling. (Which is probably way over my head, as I said.)=20

> A few pointers:
> Start out from current CVS.
> Start in: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0main() :)
> Screen size: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 SetupX()
> Load saved settings: LoadSnapInfo()
> Load configuration: =A0LoadEConfig()

That will get me started. I will probably tinker with it a little over the=
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next weekend.

Thanks,


=46elix