Re: Multimonitor support

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred!

On 03/02/2020 21:15, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Sergii has written a great patch that will tremendously improve support for 
> multiple monitors in GNUstep by using the XRandR extension. There is a downside 
> to it though, this patch will also remove any multi screen support that was 
> there before without XRandR. So if you have a multi monitor setup and your 
> system won’t support XRandR we would like to hear from you and try to find a 
> solution that is acceptable for all sides. I hope that there is nobody in this 
> specific situation but it seems easier to ask in advance than to fix it later.


Sounds great.

First question - this refers only to X11, right? Multi-Monitor support 
(or lack of) under windows are unaffected?

Second question - what was there "before" which would stop working, so 
which multi-monitor support is "left out" ? A setup to test it.

Currently I use GNUstep and multi-monitor only in a setup with a Laptop 
+ external screen, which means usually a relatively recent OS. Randr 1.2 
has been around almost 10 years. If we don't require more modern 
features, I probably won't hit these limits. A laptop without xrandr is 
hard to sue, since only with it the external monitor can be dynamically 
added/removed.

My more "esoteric" machines are single-monitor setups. Solaris 7 with 
two Monitors would be a setup? I don't have setups like that.


Riccardo