From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 10:21:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9540516A4CF for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D0B43D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AsnMi-0003tp-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:21:08 +0100 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 18:21:08 2004 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 18:21:08 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:21:06 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <20040216095305.R57346-100000@moo.sysabend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: Higher-res external monitors under X X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:21:09 -0000 Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: >> Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > >> > I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 on an IBM ThinkPad X23 under FreeBSD 4.8, >> > with Gnome/Metacity. The built-in screen has a maximum resolution of >> > 1024x768. I would like to be able to plug in an external monitor and >> > have that monitor display with a higher resolution, without having to >> > restart X (and thus have to shut down all my running X apps, etc.). > >> > How can I accomplish this, if it's even possible? > >> I don't think it is possible. Maybe someday soon though. The new RandR >> extensions should allow for on-the-fly resolution changes, but >> unfortunately I don't think any window managers have taken advantage of >> the new functionality yet. I think I saw KDE support in CVS though, so >> it should be available soon. > > Unless something has changed, as long as you have valid modelines for all > display devices and resolutions you plan on having X output to, ctrl-alt-+ > and ctrl-alt-- are your friends. This has the obvious disadvantage that it doesn't resize the desktop. RandR will resize the desktop as well as the viewable resolution. I've never much liked virtual desktops, personally. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net