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Update to RandR 1.5 #533

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@pmenzel pmenzel commented Nov 17, 2017

Tested on keineahnung, but GDM 3.4.1 and Xfce 4.12 do not seem to make use of it.

The current URL moved permanently.

```
$ curl -I http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:21:44 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
Location: https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

```
Version 1.5.0 adds support for monitor objects, needed for tiled
displays, that means displays with more than one panel (MST,
Multi-Stream Transport) like the Dell UP3214Q [1].

Announcement [1]:

> Add support for monitors and fixes requires on libX11.
>
> Keith Packard (2):
>       libXrandr: Clean up compiler warnings
>       Add monitors, update to version 1.5 (v2)
>
> Michael Joost (1):
>       Remove fallback for _XEatDataWords, require libX11 1.6 for it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multiple_displays_on_single_DisplayPort_connector
[2] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-May/002606.html
The current URL moved permanently.

```
$ curl -I http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:16:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
Location: https://www.x.org/releases/individual/app/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

```
Announcement [1]:

> xrandr is a command line interface to the X11 Resize, Rotate, and Reflect
> (RandR) extension.
>
> This release adds support for the new monitor objects added in RandR 1.5, and
> fixes a few bugs.
>
>
> Aaron Plattner (2):
>       Split verbose mode printing into a helper function
>       xrandr 1.5.0
>
> Chris Wilson (3):
>       Mark disabling an output as a change in its CRTC
>       Mark all CRTC as currently unused for second picking CRTC pass
>       Only use the current information when setting modes
>
> Dave Airlie (2):
>       xrandr: parse property returns correctly.
>       xrandr: don't return NULL from a void
>
> Keith Packard (3):
>       Increase keystone.5c default window size
>       keystone: Report matrix error. Deal with "primary" in xrandr output
>       Add monitor support (v2)

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-February/002677.html
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david commented Nov 22, 2017

why you change xrandr*.bee to libXandr.be0 and the libxandr*.bee to xandr.be0 ;-p

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pmenzel commented Nov 22, 2017

I didn’t. GitHub just has a bug with the copy detection it seems.

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david commented Nov 22, 2017

tested on rabammel

@david david merged commit 179e5c3 into master Nov 22, 2017
@donald donald deleted the update-to-randr-1.5 branch December 1, 2017 15:30
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