[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> ------ Original message ------
> On Tuesday 20 Jul 2004 22:08, Ken Hough wrote:
> 
> 
>>I did, as a normal user and it works. I also set this line in the
>>.profile file in a normal user account. It still does the trick!
>>
>>However, one thing missing. To set up a second display on for example
>>vt8, the complete line should be:
>>
>>X -ac :1 vt8 & xclock -display :1
>>
>>I've tried replacing xclock with kwrite and even k3b! They both work,
>>but there's no obvious way of resizing the window to full screen. Any
>>suggestions?
>>
> 
> 
> X -ac :1 vt8 & xclock -display :1 -geometry 1024x768
> 
> This would do it for a 1024x768 screen! We can lock the XF86Config file down 
> to one screen resolution so Ctrl+Alt+[+/-] doesn't switch resolution, we 
> should easily be able to get away with 800x600 though.
>


No! This does not resize the apps window to full screen. At least I 
can't make do so. This need not be a problem as our app can be made to 
scale to full screen nomatter what screen resolution. Can be a bit of a 
pain to do. It means scaling and positioning all screen items 
accordingly. I have done it in the past under MS Windows/Borland C++ 
Builder, but it does add quite a lot to the development time -- unless 
there's an easy way that I've missed.

It's much simpler to decide on a screen resolution, stick to it and 
develop the app accordingly.


>>Having (almost) cracked this, how should we develop our CD burning app?
>>I've used Borland C++ Builder under MS Windows, but haven't yet got
>>around to window programming under Linux. I intend to get into
>>Kdevelop/QT soon.
>>
> 
> 
> I have had some experience (mainly positive) of coding in Anjuta, with 
> GTK/Gnome in C (debian box at uni). My main gripe was with the version of GTK 
> that debian installs. Found some nice quick tutorials online :-)
>

Haven't looked at Anjuta as I don't normally use Gnome. I'll have a play 
ASAP.

QT Designer looks GOOD! It's not as easy as using Kylix3/Borland C++ 
Builder, but I guess that would really upset the Linux philosophers 
(chuckle).

Ken Hough