Re: Lots of _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN issues ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:57:23PM -0500, Billy Biggs wrote: 
> > > Aside: I seriously thought that _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN meant that
> > > my app didn't need to worry about all of our VidMode code. :(
> > 
> > You shouldn't need to worry about resizing or redecorating your
> > application window (once we sort all this out), but you still have to
> > worry about changing the X server to the vidmode you want including
> > any properties of that such as whether it should allow panning.
> > 
> > Fullscreen mode does not imply changing vidmode - how would the WM
> > know which vidmode to change to?
> 
>   No, it should honour the current vidmode.  The user will use
> ctrl-alt-+/- or xrandr or whatever to select the appropriate refresh
> rate or resolution, and then using _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN should use
> the current mode, no?

Yes, the window manager should honor the vidmode. What we're
discussing here is how to implement that in the window manager.

Havoc