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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-22 10:58:18 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-05-04 09:47:27 +1000 |
| commit | 895ee5264524c7c239ee4ef5e39c4e295323fb51 (patch) | |
| tree | 16abc13bec0052aed600955243289dfe9d0a50f4 | |
| parent | 98da0d6e48b7d124d6788ea568e9f9e3dc204322 (diff) | |
| download | xorg-proto-randrproto-895ee5264524c7c239ee4ef5e39c4e295323fb51.tar.gz | |
randrproto: clarify output XID lifetimes.
This just makes a note that randr won't make outputs disappear
dynamically.
Reviewed-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | randrproto.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/randrproto.txt b/randrproto.txt index 74b7c36..416f001 100644 --- a/randrproto.txt +++ b/randrproto.txt @@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ consider as single viewable areas. Xinerama's information now comes from the Monitors instead of directly from the CRTCs. The Monitor marked as Primary will be listed first. +1.5.2. Clarification of Output lifetimes + +With dynamic connectors being a possibility with the introduction of +DisplayPort multistream (MST), a lot of RandR clients can't handle the +XID BadMatch when a RandR output disappears. This is to clarify that +going forward the X server will not remove outputs dynamically, +just mark them as disconnected. + 1.99 Acknowledgments Our thanks to the contributors to the design found on the xpert mailing |