Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Paul Rogers
> Rather than a configuration of the type you're familiar with, I'll bet > the newer way will work, if not with your custom installed system, at > least with a common recent live media distro as a means of proving. 1) One of the reasons I've been making and running, ahem, Paul's Own Distro(s) sin

disallowing unsupported video modes.

2020-04-02 Thread Anthony Jagers
My running Xserver is configured with the highest reported video mode available as: 1920x1080. My monitor does not support that mode. 1600x900 is the highest my monitor will go. This gives me headaches when starting games. The screen will go black, with a message that the input is not supported. T

copy paste from or to xquartz and other applications or within xquartz

2020-04-02 Thread Eric Fredrickson
The copy paste function is intermittent. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Sometimes it can be fixed by randomly changing settings in preferences:pasteboard. And I mean random. Sometimes it works if I just disable syncing altogether. Sometimes it works with everything checked. Or with ran

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:03 PM Paul Rogers wrote: > > > I don't think it has anything to do with the Samsung or the Dell, but > > rather with > > however you are trying to configure. How exactly are you configuring? > > See attachment. Or are you asking for the build options for the server? > >

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Paul Rogers
> I'm not familiar with the vesa or nouveau drivers and whether or not > they support panning. One thing you could try however is to VESA has been panning all along with my VGA monitors. > temporarily disable your xorg configs and enable panning dynamically > at runtime using xrandr just to see

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:09 PM Paul Rogers wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with the vesa or nouveau drivers and whether or not > > they support panning. One thing you could try however is to > > VESA has been panning all along with my VGA monitors. > > > temporarily disable your xorg configs and e

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Rogers composed on 2020-04-02 09:09 (UTC-0700): > KP+ & KP- do work with the VESA driver on my VGA monitors, > and this server. It's one of my main reasons for using VESA--a key press is > so > much faster and easier than xrandr. My xorg.conf with this system specifies > VESA still, and it

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Paul Rogers
> I made 3 OS & hardware combinations deliver panning as expected with a > condensed > and consolidated version of your xorg.conf.d/ files relevant to video > configuration. I found nothing in them relevant to KP+ or KP-, which didn't > work > for me for any of the three. The Kubuntu is a version

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Rogers composed on 2020-04-02 18:18 (UTC-0700): > ...vga=791 video=1024x768 at 60 3 nouveau.modeset=0... > the vga= implies framebuffers It only affects the vttys, and then only if KMS disabled. IOW, no expected impact on X. > video= for VESA driver With NVidia and AMD GPUs, this applie