[Notion-general] Issues with resizing the screen via RANDR on an X server that lacks Xinerama

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

First off, just wanted to say as a long time user and mailing list 
lurker that Notion is ridiculously awesome - many, many thanks for all 
the hard work!

I've run into an issue while upgrading an older installation on one of 
my machines that I access only via VNC. Specifically, I'm using 
TigerVNC, the precompiled binary of which does not come with Xinerama 
enabled. Since mod_xrandr relies on mod_xinerama, which of course relies 
on the server having Xinerama enabled, the new version of Notion 
(2013030200?) no longer responds to screen size changes. My older 
install - circa 2011? - used an "external" mod_xrandr, from gwash, I 
believe, and did not rely on mod_xinerama.

I can understand why the TigerVNC team did not include Xinerama in their 
default build, and recompiling/wresting with X + Tiger everytime there 
is an update doesn't seem like a productive (or pleasant) use of one's 
time. Is there a good way to address this issue on the Notion side? Is 
this even an issue that others have run into? I spent a little bit of 
time looking over the code for mod_xinerama and mod_xrandr. Are there 
any reasons why we can't merge the two into a single module? 
(mod_dynamicview?) Perhaps modify mod_xinerama so that in the event the 
server doesn't support Xinerama, it will assume only one monitor and 
fall back on RANDR for screen information?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jeff

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