Re: [RFC] Fake a global monitor when RanfR is not available.

Thomas Adam <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Nov 2021 01:29:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel
Message-ID <20211119012907.nk4nvvu3zhcpmivo@moo>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 02:14:57AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> For debugging I need to run another fvwm in xnest, but that
> doesn't support randr.

Bloody xnest/xephyr.

I suppose this OK, but it bothers me we need to fix it this way... I am not
sure though there's a workaround.

> The attached patch mocks up a global monitor to use if init fails.
> It works at the first glance, but the patch is not very clean.
> Please comment.

It sucks.  Under whar circumstances is this likely to fail?  I mean, I
appreciate the point you're making, but whatelse am I missing?

Kindly,
Thomas