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Re: [Bulk] [trinity-devel] two unique tdecmshell xserver instances at once possible?

From: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:15:42 +0900
On 2016/11/30 12:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> man tdecmshell produces no manual entry. tdecmshell --help-all doesn't seem to show what I'm looking for AFAICT.
> 
> What I'd like is to open 'tdemshell xserver', then run an xrandr command to change DPI, finally run 'tdemshell xserver'
> to compare the before and after impact from the xrandr command. It doesn't work. The second tdecmshell run simply
> focuses the original window. Is there any way to do what I want? If not, is it a feature that might be added to 14.1 if
> I filed a feature request bug?
> 
> For now what I have to do as workaround is as shown here (using xterm) :-(:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/dpi108vs133.jpg

No idea what effort that would require, have to see how the software is done.
Wouldn't it be easier to open the first tdecmshell xserver, take a snapshot, make the xrandr changes, then open the
tdecmshell again and compare? Just as a temporary workaround at least?

Cheers
  Michele


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