[luau] News - True Resizing Support on XFree86 4.3

[MonMotha]

Warren Togami wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/20/1914253&mode=thread&tid=104
> "Great news from our favorite windowing system: [Hewlett-Packard]
> engineers committed a new extension to XFree86, called RandR. XFree86
> 4.3 (to be released in late 2002/early 2003), will have the ability to
> truly resize (not via the pseudo-resize CNTRL+[+/-] command), rotate,
> reflect and change the refresh rate of each screen of an X display on
> the fly."
> 
snip

This is very cool indeed.  Hopefully I'll get home in time tomorrow to 
give Jim and Keith props for their great work.

This is actually really useful.  I've been using it on my ipaq for a 
while (the rotation part) and even without WM support it does alright.

--MonMotha
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