Re: i think this is a bug

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:38:13 -0800
schrieb D M German <dmg uvic ca>:

> 
> I have viewport-boundary-mode  set to stop. 
> 
> My laptop's screen is 1450x1028. 
> 
> When I attach an external display, the external display is to the
> "right" of my laptop screen, and the screen dimensions grow
> accordingly:
> 
> 
> user> (screen-dimensions )
> (3320 . 1200)
> 
> 
> Then I run xrandr to place the external display "on top" on my laptop
> display:
> 
> xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1920x1200 --same-as LVDS1 --pos 0x0
> --output LVDS1 --mode 1400x1050 --pos 0x0 
> 
> My external display (which is larger than my laptop) is considered
> head 0 (no matter if the pointer is in a area visible to the external
> display only, or in common area).
> 
> user> (pointer-head)
> 0
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> Except that, my screen-dimensions were not reset to match my new
> screen configuration :( They are still 3320 x 1200.
> 
> ANy suggestions to what to do to fix it? How do I reset the
> screen-dimensions?

Not yet. BTW this is also the reason why your patch for the
configure-notify-hook is not beeing applied yet.

Chris

> thanks a lot!
> 
> ---dmg