Re: [wmii] Changing resolution within WMII and wmiir strange behaviour

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:42:43 +0200

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Juanval wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying latest snapshot (haven't been using wmii for a while), and
> while in my laptop it seems to give no problems, I'm having trouble
> changing resolution in my desktop computer.
>
> If I change the X screen resolution using Ctrl Alt +/-, or xrandr, the
> screen changes, but WMII seems to think the old resolution is still in
> use and clients retain their old size and positions :-\
>
> Is there any way to tell wmii what the new resolution is? (maybe using
> wmiir or something?)
>
> If it's something nobody else is experiencing, it might be because
> this machine is an x86_64, using twinview for double monitor :-S

Thanks for the hint, but currently wmii does not handle
resolution changes (this is on TODO for a long time though).

> Oh, and I've just seen something strange while using wmiir. When using
> wmiir read, file times don't seem to be correct, and change in an
> almost random way at every execution. This is the output given by
> wmiir when executed repeatedly:

> juanval_AT_Giger:~$ wmiir read /
> d-rwx------ juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 bar
> d-r-x------ juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 clients
> ---w------- juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 ctl
> d-r-x------ juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 def
> --rw------- juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 event
> --r-------- juanval juanval 2 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 tags
> d-r-x------ juanval juanval 0 Thu Sep 20 07:38:33 -113786595 view

Yes, that is related to 64bit issues, will be fixed asap.

Regards,

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Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 19:42:44 UTC

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