2011/9/15 Teika Kazura
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:07:04 -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 04:02:39 -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
I don't understand why large desktop is not so much common[...] [...] While it was originally introduced to allow multiple monitor resolutions to coexist
Probably you're talking about RandR, and you're right. Another
XRandR came *much* later.
unfortune is that it's (also) poorly documented. Though I'm not sure if meddling RandR to achieve large desktop is the best way...
The problem with doing it in the window manager is that a number of standard
library routines that use the X server's idea of the screen extents now have
to be reimplemented to use the window manager's idea of it. Back in the
very early days of this, it was *usually* enough to recompile every program
against a copy of