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Crayon Shin Chan
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Alternative to XFree86? Anybody? Please....

Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:44 am

Yup, I was wondering if I could find one alternative to XFree86. Granted, it has nice Window Managers, but.... I can't change my refresh rate without praying my computer won't crash again...
I've also heard something about a new graphics drawer called Y? I read the PDF somewhere...
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Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:40 am

Your only realistic alternative is CLI. Nothing else is ready to go, or even close to it (including Y)
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Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:18 am

You can adjust your Refresh rate specifically very easily. If you have gnome installed run the command gnome-display-properties and you can change your resolution and refresh rate easily without so much as restarting Xfree.
 
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Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:59 am

XRandR is all about refresh rate changes on the fly. It's the good stuff.

As much as so many people have bad things to say about XFree86, there's nothing else out there that's even sort of close to it in terms of compatibility, speed, cross-platform friendliness, and features. Others may beat it in one or two categories, but overall it's #1.
 
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:25 am

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Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:21 am

Forge wrote:
XRandR is all about refresh rate changes on the fly. It's the good stuff.

As much as so many people have bad things to say about XFree86, there's nothing else out there that's even sort of close to it in terms of compatibility, speed, cross-platform friendliness, and features. Others may beat it in one or two categories, but overall it's #1.


Xouvert is something to look forward to, it's a Xfree86 fork.
http://www.xouvert.org
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Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:56 am

Thanks man! Hopefully it'll be radically different from X.... and while I'm waiting, there are plenty of links on the site. Thanks a lot!!!
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Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:25 pm

Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
Thanks man! Hopefully it'll be radically different from X.... and while I'm waiting, there are plenty of links on the site. Thanks a lot!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seems like I've made someone happy :)

Let's hope Xouvert will have something decent by the time Longhorn gets out.
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Tue Nov 11, 2003 5:12 pm

One word: freedesktop.org

They just released screenshots of their new X server, which aims to replace Xfree86

http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=5105

Screenshots page: http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/
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