Re: New user preferences program/capplet for RandR needed.

[<Jim Gettys hp com>]

This means you can change the size of an existing screen on the fly.  So,
for example if you have a 1400x1050 flat panel on your laptop, and want to
switch to 1024x768 to drive a projector, we can "do the right thing"
(though we pulled the (never tested or implemented) code for depth switching,
which looks like would likely become obsolete before widely deployed).

Keith and I don't believe in widespread deployment of untested interfaces,
so we stripped depth switching out of RandR, leaving resize and rotate, and
also reflection (someone wandered up to me at a conference and said:
"I'd like to build a Heads Up Display out of a laptop", so we said,
"you've just convinced us").  Reflection still needs some ddx work.

It does not mean that screens can be hot-plugged (though I'm sure we'll
use RandR as part of the solution for that problem).  Hot plug of
screens will take more work, and is fodder for XFree86 5, rather than
4.3.

It also means that you will (at least eventually) be able to plug a
flat panel into where your monitor is plugged, and be able to "do the right
thing" down to having the subpixel order correct for subpixel decimation.
                                  - Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim Gettys hp com

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