[Question] More CRTCs than supported displays; questions about intel-virtual-output and VIRTUAL1

2020-07-24 Thread Andrew Parsons
Hello all, TL;DR: my questions concern the following two topics: - CRTCs and Intel integrated GPUs - intel-virtual-output utility I have a laptop with both an Intel integrated GPU and an AMD discrete GPU. ``` ➜ ~ xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 2 Provider 0: id: 0x70 cap: 0x9, Source

Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-24 Thread Elie Goldman Smith
X.Org, to whom it may concern: I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior. The rationale is simple: Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to users who know that it exists. For everyone else, it's a liability. Say for exam

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-24 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith wrote: > X.Org, to whom it may concern: > > I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an > optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior. > > The rationale is simple: > Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to user

Re: [Question] ZaphodHeads, ServerLayout without position information, and touchscreens

2020-07-24 Thread Hugh Chang
Dear Böszörményi Zoltán, Thank you for sharing "touchscreen-transform" program and giving a detailed explanation of it. > assumes they are put side by side. > The output is a series of floats that is the TransformationMatrix I found that the program is very handy to calculate transformation

Re: [Question] ZaphodHeads, ServerLayout without position information, and touchscreens

2020-07-24 Thread Böszörményi Zoltán
Hi, we use this kind of ServerLayout: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "LAYOUT" Option "AutoServerLayout" "on" Screen 0 "SCREEN0" Screen 1 "SCREEN1" RightOf "SCREEN0" EndSection This way, their canvases look like they are put side by side. E.g. if

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 7/23/20 1:19 AM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote: Solution: Middle-mouse pasting would be great as a setting that can be enabled/disabled by 'xset' on the command line. Please let me know if this would be simple to implement. It would not be, because it is not a X server behavior. It is simply a

Re: [Question] ZaphodHeads, ServerLayout without position information, and touchscreens

2020-07-24 Thread Adam Nielsen
> >> but I don't know how to configure xorg.conf > >> when ServerLayout is described without position information for > >> multi-seat setup with one graphic card (zaphod heads). Are you sure you want a multi-seat setup, which is where multiple people are sitting in front of the same computer, usi

Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-24 Thread Adam Nielsen
> I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an > optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior. Where are you seeing this Xorg behaviour? If I run "xev" and click the middle mouse button, I only see a "button 2 pressed" event, I don't see any events relating to the clipbo

Re: [Question] More CRTCs than supported displays; questions about intel-virtual-output and VIRTUAL1

2020-07-24 Thread Adam Nielsen
> While investigating this, I came across something I didn't quite > understand. Officially, the Intel UHD 620 supports three displays. However, > `xrandr` shows that there are four CTRCs available on Provider 0 (Intel). You'll probably have to avoid using grep and check the full output. I suspec

Re: [Question] More CRTCs than supported displays; questions about intel-virtual-output and VIRTUAL1

2020-07-24 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 25/07/2020 à 02:38, Adam Nielsen a écrit : 3. Why do I need VIRTUAL1? Virtual monitor was used time ago, when no HD monitor did exist to create a screen larger than the real one. the display was a subset of this virtual screen and could be moved through it. This wasn't very practical.