On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:47, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:52, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > > > > I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15" > > > powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X). > > > > BTW, 2.6 kernels handle this much better than 2.4 kernels. :) > > But these don't happen to boot already on ppc machines right ?
But sure they do. :) I'm using the linuxppc-2.5 tree via rsync, there's also linuxppc-2.5-benh if you don't mind using bk. Beware that there are still many minor problems, but the only major problem for me is that sleep doesn't work with the linuxppc-2.5 tree yet. You should probably ask the following questions on an XFree86 mailing list, but I'll do my best to answer some nonetheless. > BTW, is there a way to limit the movement of the mouse cursor, i.e. I > want to limit it when I am disconnected from the second head to :0 and > then when reconnected allow the full width of :0 and :1 ? There's no possibility to do this in the server yet, but it might be possible to achieve this with a client to some extent. > Another BTW: I just realized that I am unable to work in any Xinerama > setup ... I really need to desktops that are separate from each other, > such that I can switch workspaces on one desktop while the other does > not change (still shows email etc...) ... So I wonder what the plans in > Xfree are... will it be possible to somehow remove the window on :1 and > put it on :0 ? Not transparently to clients, as non-Xinerama heads are basically separate displays, but as I said earlier, GTK+ as of version 2.2 can do this, though unfortunately there's no app-independent support for it yet, see e.g. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-May/msg00029.html, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-November/msg00103.html and http://www.spinics.net/lists/xf-xpert/msg04877.html . > Also since the xrandr stuff I wonder whether there are plans about > dynamic head addons ... I'm not aware of such plans, and I doubt it could happen before 5.x in any event. (Note that this probably isn't related to RandR at all) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
