RandR 1.3 Explained, Demonstrated

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 8 February 2009 at 08:09 AM EST. Page 1 of 1. 16 Comments.

The first X.Org talk at FOSDEM 2009 was on version 1.3 of the Resize and Rotate extension. Matthias Hopf talked about RandR 1.3 and then Keith Packard demonstrated the transformations and panning operations using this soon-to-be-released version of RandR. Among the features for RandR 1.3 are querying state without output probing, multi-monitor panning, display transformations (translation, scaling, rotation, projection), and support for standard outputs. We have talked about RandR 1.3 previously at Phoronix, so read our other RandR 1.3 articles for more information. RandR 1.3 is being introduced with the forthcoming X Server 1.6.

RandR 1.3 will not ship with GPU object support, but it may ship in a future release. Matthias had shared that the version may change to RandR 2.0 once the object support has been added.

Below is our video of the RandR 1.3 talk.

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