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Re: Workaround, for now
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:30:51 EDT
- Subject: Re: Workaround, for now
Alan,
> LAYER and RANDR are not complete. They both form the basis for Rotate
> and Resizing. This will allow colour depth switching and rotating of
> the display. So don't worry about them.
Ah ha. I knew what RANDR was supposed to do, but I was missing that vital
status information that they are not complete. Had I known that I wouldn't
have enabled them yet.
I remember now why I did enable them: Keith made a change to SHADOW to
accomadate LAYER, but he didn't anticipate someone using SHADOW like we do, so
SHADOW started crashing on startup. I saw his change and thought that SHADOW
now depended upon LAYER, so I spent a week or two enabling LAYER support.
After I had that working I realized that my crashing bug was still there and
that it really had to do with that change to SHADOW. I submitted a fix for
SHADOW and suddenly everything was fine again. I never bothered to turn LAYER
and RANDR back off after that because they didn't seem to have any negative
effects. Now they do :)
Harold