XGetWindowProperty() AnyPropertyType and XA_CARDINAL?

2012-01-13 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
A atom is placed as a XA_CARDINAL type to the root window. To get this atom XGetWindowProperty() is used. AnyPropertyType fails and XA_CARDINAL succeeds in the req_type argument, which is the 7th one, to XGetWindowProperty(). Is there a reason for this? The XGetWindowProperty manual says both s

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vmware 11.1.0

2012-01-13 Thread thellstrom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Resending announcement message since the previous one was incorrect. Please disregard that message. xf86-video-vmware is an X server display driver for VMware's virtual SVGA device. The xf86-video-vmware-11.1.0 release is a stable release and suitab

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vmware 11.99.901

2012-01-13 Thread thellstrom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xf86-video-vmware is an X server display driver for VMware's virtual SVGA device. This is an alpha release for upcoming xf86-video-vmware 12.0.0. It adds 3D - and RandR12 functionality to the driver, please refer to http://wiki.x.org/wiki/vmware and

X goes blank with SAK SysRq

2012-01-13 Thread Raghavendra D Prabhu
Hi, When Ctrl-Alt-Bksp (with zapping) fails to resolve my hang, recently I read about SAK which also works as killing all on current console, and it is invoked as Alt-SysRq-K . However, I noticed that invoking it with X running puts the whole system into an unknown state -- blank screen on

Re: Re: Xsettings after keyboard is plugged

2012-01-13 Thread Raghavendra D Prabhu
Hi Peter, * On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:18:42AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 06:51:37AM +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: Hi, When X is running and I plug out/plug in my usb keyboard, I see that Xmodmap/xset etc settings get lost and I have it to run xmodmap/xset ag

Re: X goes blank with SAK SysRq

2012-01-13 Thread Raghavendra D Prabhu
Hi, * On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 03:57:09AM +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: Hi, When Ctrl-Alt-Bksp (with zapping) fails to resolve my hang, recently I read about SAK which also works as killing all on current console, and it is invoked as Alt-SysRq-K . However, I noticed that invoking i