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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38163: GDK does not return the monitor's refresh rate
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:00:30 +0100
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To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: Alexandros Theodotou <alex@zrythm.org>, 38163@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Bengt,

Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> skribis:

> On +2019-11-11 21:31:23 +0000, Alexandros Theodotou wrote:

[...]

>> > Could you try adding that dependency on =E2=80=98libxrandr=E2=80=99 in=
 =E2=80=98gtk+=E2=80=99?
>>=20
>> Just tried that and it worked! It's returning the correct refresh rate
>> now:
>> ** Message: 21:20:40.548: refresh rate returned by GDK: 60.0

[...]

> I'm wondering about a narrowly-X solution.
>
> Shouldn't this really come from udevd noticing display changes?
> What about a multi-display seat, with potentially different refresh rates?
>
> IIUC it seems like libdrm and KMS can get at all that, so a light-weight =
solution
> should be possible, ISTM, and accessible from console command line withou=
t X.

You=E2=80=99re right, but note that GDK has several backends (not just X11)=
, and
this issue was about fixing the problem with the X11 backend.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.