From kde-devel Mon Nov 30 16:42:14 1998 From: "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:42:14 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Change resolution? (was Re: What's with the background docking icon?) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=91244385406548 Alex Zepeda wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Aaron Levinson wrote: > > > So, does anyone know if there is a standard programmatic way to do this? > > It would be really cool if this feature could be added to the kbgndwm > > docking icon. As far as I know, something like this is not available > > anywhere for Unix. Or, do you have to be super-user to do this? It would > > be pretty lame if you can't do this with X but can easily do it on > > Windows (which you can). > > There was a nifty little program that used XFree86 specific extensions out > there to do something like this (and yes it was written for KDE). If you > (or anyone for that matter) take the time to make it a kcm "applet" I'll > add it to kdeutils. Of course if someone can dig up some info on how to > do this with the rest of the X servers "supported" by KDE, that'd be even > better. > > - alex > > | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | > | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | > | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | It would be cool if such a program detects if one is using XFree86 and if so, allow one to change the res using a menu. Maybe even allow multiple desktops use different resolutions? Maybe even add a property to kdelnk that allows to switch to a specific resolution before running (there is such a program - QRes - for windoze95). Regards, Yannai. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yannai A. Gonczarowski _____..---======~~~~~=======---.._____ ______________________ __,-='=====____ ================ _____=====`= (._____________________I__) - _-=_/ `--------=+=-------' / /__...---===='---+---_' System Administrator '------'---.___ - _ = _.-' yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il `--------' The Hebrew University High School "Si vis pacem, para bellum" http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------