On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 23:00 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:51:08PM +0000, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:45:48PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On ven, aoû 17, 2007 at 05:21:31 +0000, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > wnpp@debian.org dijo [Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:26:43AM -0600]: > > > > > The following packages have been orphaned: > > > > > > > > > > mod-xinerama-for-ion (#438446), orphaned today > > > > > Description: Xinerama support for the Ion3 window manager > > > > > Installations reported by Popcon: 7 > > > > > > > > Wouldn't it be better to remove this package from the distribution? > > > > Very few people use it, it does not have an upstream author (well, > > > > yes, it has an upstream author who wants it dead ;-) ), and ion3 > > > > itself (although my WM of choice) is currently sitting in non-free > > > > because of its author's... Rigidness :-/ > > > > > > FWIW I do use it, maybe I could maintain it, OTOH, it's buggy for me > > > as it does not supports xrandr 1.2 properly. > > > > It should probably be dropped then. The old Xaphod mode xinerama is dead at > > X.org, and we're not really going to be supporting it any more in lenny, so > > if this package doesn't work properly with randr 1.2 then it either needs > > to be fixed or dropped from the archive. > > I wasn't very clear: in fact what doesn't work is that > ioncore.restart() is broken with that module, and with xrander1.2 you > want to change your xinerama layout all the time and restart the WM to > notice that. And it make it break. No, you want your WM to subscribe to and handle Xrandr notifications (or size change notifications for the root window), which Ion3 unfortunately doesn't at present. Then there should be a hook in Ion3 that it will call when the screen is resized, which mod_xinerama would use. > It understands xinerama properly fwiw. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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