Re: deleting bad probed modeline

2024-09-30 Thread Carsten Haitzler
pps i wanted to tame. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: A question about XPresent extension from the user point of view

2024-10-19 Thread Carsten Haitzler
r or slower than the screen can handle and use those events to trigger animation frame redraws. -- ----- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

2024-11-03 Thread Carsten Haitzler
wner you highlighted in is responsible for delivering it. How it was highlighted to begin with is entirely on that end, so I assume you've found a bug in a toolkit used by the apps above to handle all of this (probably GTK). -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am

Re: XShape example usage?

2017-12-22 Thread Carsten Haitzler
in advance, > > Felix Schütt > > ___ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s --

Re: DPMS event notification

2018-01-19 Thread Carsten Haitzler
> > * on (nearly) all windows; or by waiting for the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension > > * to send us a "you are idle" event. > > The only thing it has to do with DPMS is forcing the monitor settings to > match what xscreensaver thinks they should be > <https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/39809d

Re: how to run Xserver without a installed console

2020-01-08 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ng. ensure the X symlink points to Xvfb and not Xorg? :) yes - it should do all the normal "core" extensions -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ___ x

Re: How to start with X?

2020-01-24 Thread Carsten Haitzler
Petriglia (ema-pe) > > Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity. > > On 23 January 2020 16:25:05 CET, Carsten Haitzler > wrote: > >On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:26:32 +0100 Emanuele Petriglia > > said: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I would like to

Re: Variable DPI according resolution AND screen size

2020-02-17 Thread Carsten Haitzler
In the Wayland universe, the compositor can do a lot more to patch things over client by client and for example scale "dumb" clients up and down on displays without a native API, and for those able to handle scaling properly, display them at a native resolution. > Thanks, > &

Re: EWMH specification doesn't say windows of type "dock" cannot be moved, but docks & WMs assume this

2020-09-07 Thread Carsten Haitzler
; Many thanks, > - Ornxka > ___ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_addr

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > ___ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Inf

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
randeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > ___ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription

Re: Problem with X and JPEG2000 images

2021-01-01 Thread Carsten Haitzler
nfo: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org suppo

Re: Beginner Questions About XCB - xcb_alloc_color is too slow

2021-02-21 Thread Carsten Haitzler
f you need to get a property - defer it until later and not every time a property change event comes in. If a property changes many times you can avoid multiple fetches and just fetch the latest value "some time later" etc. For things like rendering xcb will have really no benefits over xlib. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s

Re: Beginner Questions About XCB - xcb_alloc_color is too slow

2021-02-21 Thread Carsten Haitzler
mage thread this will be fine. Once this sync returns the shm buffer is available for re-use. So keep 2 or 3 buffers around and put them to the screen and then when those complete put them back in the pool/ring buffer of "buffers" to be available for the rendering thread(s) to fill up. Yo

Re: Beginner Questions About XCB - xcb_alloc_color is too slow

2021-02-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:24:46 -0500 Sam Varshavchik said: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 4:47 PM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > Use Xlib. Or just use a toolkit higher up the stack. XCB really is for > > people who already know X backwards. It can buy some speedups in som

Re: Beginner Questions About XCB - xcb_alloc_color is too slow

2021-02-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
won't be able to do this, of > course. If you cannot use the same colormap, then try to use > different colormaps only for special image-processing or other > high-color-usage windows. For the rest of the application, use > the same colormap. This often works we

Re: ButtonRelease event when focus changed

2021-05-01 Thread Carsten Haitzler
gt; Your subscription address: %(user_address)s > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://list

Re: ButtonRelease event when focus changed

2021-05-03 Thread Carsten Haitzler
new window and not the old, so you need to switch your logic to continue the drag with the new window id in mind... > -- Rokas Kupstys > > On 2021-05-01 15:04, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:05:35 +0300 Rokas Kupstys said: > > > > in x, a button

Re: Problem with distorted sound in X application

2021-07-09 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ww.linuxmisc.com/5-linux-hardware/5cb2489886e85949.htm > > Any idea on how to fix this? > > Thanks in advance, > > JHM > ___ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://l

Re: Putting a pixmap into a window every frame

2021-08-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
he best way to do that on X11 today? > > * If curious, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVune0NEsA for an example > app. > > Thanks, > Andy -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Putting a pixmap into a window every frame

2021-08-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:34:58 +0100 "Andrew Bainbridge" said: > Great reply. Thanks for taking the time. > > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > I now can only talk > > about mine and it does NOT do the above. There is a parent frame window but > > it is identical

Re: x opacity

2022-01-06 Thread Carsten Haitzler
odito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: X11 cut (as cut/paste) accuracy

2022-01-31 Thread Carsten Haitzler
even if you are closer to the right > part of a char. > > If not settable how hard would it be to make a local patch ? > I am ignorant regarding the X11 code, don't know how hard/easy it is to > build on linux, where to start looking for that. > > Thanx in advance for your help > > Cheers, -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: X11 cut (as cut/paste) accuracy

2022-02-01 Thread Carsten Haitzler
t char at all - so pointer is anywhere over the char and then it's selected. That's what I implemented as it's logical and consistent. I have never looked at what xterm has done. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Multi-monitor configuration - related question

2022-02-07 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ppreciate your help on this issue! > > Best regards, > > Mike Faynberg > mfaynb...@hotmail.com<mailto:mfaynb...@hotmail.com> > > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Find a good config guide

2022-03-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
dowmaker # or any other window manager > startx > > For details, consult the excellent FreeBSD Handbook. indeed. i actually haven't configured xorg for probably over a decade. it just comes up and auto-detects whatever gfx chip i have and loads the right xorg-side driver. it detects i

Re: Something is keeping my X awake

2022-07-22 Thread Carsten Haitzler
; > a friend is someone with whom > you can dare to be yourself > > spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Something is keeping my X awake

2022-07-24 Thread Carsten Haitzler
as jesus von nazareth bekämpft hatte..." > - friedrich nietzsche > > spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: X (xinerama) doesn't restore window locations

2022-08-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
you haven;t tried enough wm's and de's ... as the one i wrote does what you want. i even just tested it now - did exactly what it was programmed to do :) -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: X (xinerama) doesn't restore window locations

2022-08-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:27:44 - (UTC) David Chmelik said: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:54:07 +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:18:53 - (UTC) David Chmelik > > said: > > > >> I usually always have my PC on, but of course go away

Re: I only get VisibilityNotify events at window mapping

2022-09-17 Thread Carsten Haitzler
w VisibilityNotify is supposed to work? should i assume you're running in a composited environment? (i.e. a compositor is running redirecting your window rendering to a pixmap)? -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Regarding X client

2023-06-28 Thread Carsten Haitzler
er than even xterm. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Regarding Xephyr

2023-07-03 Thread Carsten Haitzler
lient is always running (almost all the time this is a window manager at a minimum) until the session ends, or you can try the -noreset option to Xephyr -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Regarding Xephyr

2023-07-03 Thread Carsten Haitzler
the > case with the above example. race condition. it works by luck there - that x manages to connect before xsetroot disconnects. > Regards, > Riza > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 11:39 AM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 13:08:54 +0300 Riza Dindir said:

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-22 Thread Carsten Haitzler
pposed to only on 127.0.0.1 > What might be the issue with this old X client authenticating with a modern X > server? > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
e x11 protocol analysis. xtrace. xscope are some of these. I'm wondering if it's trying to create a colormapped window with a private colormap assuming a pseudocolor display (or using a pseudocolor visual). given an old enough app it may never have worked on truecolor displays. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ng advice 8-) > > Michael > > > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-24 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 Alan Coopersmith said: > On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >> So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg command line > >> and it works! > > > > wow... i've never encountered that before.

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-24 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:56:30 +1000 Peter Hutterer said: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:37 -0700 > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > > > On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >

Re: XGrabButton

2023-07-28 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ther bindings like alt+left mouse to move a window anywhere on the window etc. > It is perfectly ok for me to use 3 XGrabButton calls, but was > wondering why this would not work for a XGrabButton call with > AnyButton and AnyModifier parameters. > > Best Regards > Riza >

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-27 Thread Carsten Haitzler
t to list all your input devices... disable all the id's ... you'll have no working input devices if you disable them all - nothing to interrupt dpms (unless some other software is trying to disable the dpms blank - thus use the simplest setup possible as first point above):) -- --

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-30 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ates — I > should get, regardless of presence of any „subsystems”. I want nothing > more than is described there. > > Are you serious when stating, that during creation of a program I > should play guessing game „what kind of 'subsystem' the user may > employ”? > -- > best :) > Z. > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
t; whether is panning used, or not, is Xrandr used for that panning, or > anything else, is it Linux, or any of xBSD's etc.? In all these cases > t'll be still Xorg server, anyway. I asked for your use case. You didn't give it. Plenty of people including me have also asked "Which screen" - you haven't answered that. > That's all I need for today — and that's what DisplayWidth / > DisplayHeight promised to return > -- > regards, > Zbigniew > -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ot able to sensibly describe the modern day setups we have like plugging and unplugging external screens into laptops and so on. so will you answer the question - what screen do you mean? as i mentioned before. i think you have a far too basic view of screen and i'm trying to paint jus

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
ad. > best > > Vladimir Dergachev > > > -- > > regards, > > Zbigniew > > -- --------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-05 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 13:25:03 +0200 Lucien Gentis said: > > Le 05/09/2023 à 06:18, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev > > said: > > > >> The cool thing however, is that I can launch xeyes and it works

Re: Xpresent transparent window title bar

2024-02-04 Thread Carsten Haitzler
too that allows you to blur behind windows too like vista/7 if you want. The default theme does not have this but it's a small few line mod on the theme files and presto - it works - see above). But that's not useful to you as you use mate, so ... You need to talk to whoever works on your WM and compositor as above. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Xpresent transparent window title bar

2024-02-07 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:44:22 + "Guy Rouillier" said: > I originally sent this message, and subscribed to receive replies. > Carsten Haitzler appears to have replied to this message in a mirror, > with a cc to xorg@lists.x.org. I did not receive that reply. I

Re: Window id of xterm started

2024-02-12 Thread Carsten Haitzler
w id referenced by WM_CLIENT_LEADER to get some of these properties. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" ------ Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Window id of xterm started

2024-02-12 Thread Carsten Haitzler
eation... you're asking for a race condition here. > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM Carsten Haitzler > wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:53:39 +0300 Riza Dindir > > said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am starting xterm in

Re: Window id of xterm started

2024-02-12 Thread Carsten Haitzler
in your case). > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 14:58 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:06:36 +0300 Riza Dindir > > said: > > > > > I ended up giving that xterm a distinct title. Using "xterm -T > > > ". Then with the xdotool could

Re: Create window from arbitrary pixmap as background

2024-07-20 Thread Carsten Haitzler
other client so you have fairly little choice. it's a bit primitive TBH especially as you now don't have alpha - this is why the freeddesktop extended hints provide an icon RGBA data property ... much nicer :) -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:47:01 +0100 Christophe Lohr said: > Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : > > using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the > > right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage > > ansds th

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-10 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:02:40 +0100 Christophe Lohr said: > Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit : > > using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the > > right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage > > ansds th

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-09 Thread Carsten Haitzler
they are obviously then clients that will never be cappable of running remotely. > As a workarround, I have to generate an "untrusted" xauth cookie. > Is there a better way? > > (Note: I'm a fan of network transparency! > A next time we'll talk about vsoc

Re: Mouse drawing directly to fb0

2025-02-17 Thread Carsten Haitzler
suggest you google on what sprites are and how to draw your own in software on top of an existing array of pixels. -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: Mouse drawing directly to fb0

2025-02-19 Thread Carsten Haitzler
s do for you. It's what libraries like EFL can just hide and do for you. But you won't learn if you just take the existing solution... it's amazing what you learn when you re-invent the wheel. Also you will just not have the sense of accomplishment unless you do it the hard way yourse

Re: Mouse drawing directly to fb0

2025-02-19 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:20:45 +0100 "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" said: > On 18.02.25 08:12, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > Advice - don't try and just bolt on a mouse with a hack. reality is to do a > > mouse, you're doing sprites/overlays and/or compo

Re: Mouse drawing directly to fb0

2025-02-17 Thread Carsten Haitzler
rt suggesting you read up about double (and triple) buffering and move to zero-copy swaps... but one step at a time. figure out the whole composition of sprites and content first. :) > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 4:49 AM Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:37 -0500 Zinf

Re: looking for help on multimonitor setup

2025-03-09 Thread Carsten Haitzler
> if that's not what you mean, then I don't know how to change output you do know kde comes with a gui setup panel in its configuration dialogs that will just let you drag screens around and select their modes and also restore it for you on login? -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: looking for help on multimonitor setup

2025-03-09 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:24:59 +0100 Django Reinhard said: > Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 13:18:25 CET schrieb Carsten Haitzler: > > On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:40:08 +0100 Django Reinhard said: > > > Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 12:33:57 CET schrieb Marco Moock: > > > >

Re: looking for help on multimonitor setup

2025-03-09 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:03:43 +0100 Django Reinhard said: > Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 13:44:05 CET schrieb Carsten Haitzler: > > is your problem that kde splits the "desktop" screen by screen and each > > screen may have its own panels or when you maximize a window

Re: looking for help on multimonitor setup

2025-03-12 Thread Carsten Haitzler
y and an external > monitor running at a /lower/ resolution. > > I need to be able to establish where the problem lies, with: (1) Mate; (2) X; > or (3) the video driver... have you run xrandr to see what modes the external screen is offering - which is claims is native etc.? -- - Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com