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mif86

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 16

Restart X11 without clients dying

Hey!

Does anybody know if it is possible to restart the X server without killing the clients that are connected to it? (GUI apps and window manager.)

Why would I want this?
Well, it would be nice to be able to do things like turning on TV-out, or reconfiguring the server without restarting all my apps.
Or if the nvidia binary driver bugs, or a key hangs.

Would it be possible to set up a proxy or something, between the server and the clients to hold the client connections up while the server is restarting? Just a thought.:D

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: Restart X11 without clients dying

xrandr-1.2 + nv open-source driver (2D only!) can do some of the things you want.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … =927&num=1
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
Bye, signor_rossi.

mif86

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 16

Re: Restart X11 without clients dying

Okay, thanks.
So the closed source nvidia driver doesn't support XRandR 1.2? It does support changing resolution though.

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: Restart X11 without clients dying

AFAIK only a few open source xorg drivers support xrandr do, can't tell you what exactly nvidia closed source drivers support since I have an ati rv380 unfortunately. But they probably may in the future like fglrx (on the Phoronix forums some AMD/ATI guy said that they probably will sometime ).
As far as I have understood from looking a little on the net nouveau (open source nvidia 3D driver) who does support xrandr-1.2 isn't ready yet for normal use.

Bye, signor_rossi.

raeven

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From: the Herts of Crunchy Nut Land

Registered: 2008-02-19

Posts: 31

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Re: Restart X11 without clients dying

i achieve this behavior by setting up twin-view, no need to restart or change anything, when i plug the external monitor into my laptop, it detects and activates it.

iggy

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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 367

Re: Restart X11 without clients dying

i achieve this behavior by setting up twin-view, no need to restart or change anything, when i plug the external monitor into my laptop, it detects and activates it.

automatically? how did you realize that?:/

Last edited by iggy (2008-02-22 23:57:18)

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