[LUNI] Upside down windows (OT)

[Keith T. Garner]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:11:46, Ronald E. Petty said:
> 
> I just got a new laptop at work and the ATI 9000 lets you (at least in
> windows) rotate the screen (90,180,270,360).  I have never seen this
> either until yesterday, thought it was cool.
> 
> I have to install Linux soon (already partitioned for it, still choicing
> my distro, influence me if you will), and will look around.

The new R and R extentions for X will do what you want.  However, you
need the very latest X, and very latest libraries (gtk, qt, etc) to
use it to full effect.

RedHat 9 and FC1 support a subset of randr that will just do the
screen resizing.  I use that all the time for resizing on my laptop
when I give presentations.

However, with FC1, the best support seems to only come with KDE 3.2.
(Which I have installed thanks to the kde-redhat team.)

Keith

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  Keith T. Garner                                         kgarner at kgarner.com
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