Re: Responding to resolution changes

2008/11/30 Tony Houghton <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:07:36 +0000
> "Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/18 Tony Houghton <[email protected]>:
>> > Is it possible for ROX to hook into some sort of signal so it can
>> > respond to resolution changes? It would be handy if it could adjust its
>> > panels and backdrop icons to fit new resolutions.
[...]
>> I had a vague idea the filer already adapted to size changes, but I'm
>> stuck with an NVidia card at the moment, so xrandr doesn't work for me
>> anyway.
>
> I've just checked and found it was supposed to respond to size changes,
> but it wasn't updating the panels' copies of the screen geometry. That
> might well have been my oversight when I did the xinerama stuff! The fix
> is quite simple, patch attached.

Aha - applied!

> This still doesn't solve the problem of icons disappearing off the edge
> of the pinboard when the size decreases. IMO moving the icons
> permanently a la Windows is just about the lesser of two evils but I can
> think of two possible better strategies:

There's also Dieter Meinert's patch. Does that work? It just needs
testing, I think:

http://repo.or.cz/w/rox-filer.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pinboard-resize


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