Re: Lots of _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN issues ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:49:47PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > resolution and cope with it. This is what happens with Xrandr.
> 
> Uhm, no, Xrandr is something else.  But the man page looks intresting,
> maybe I should use that instead of VidMode.
> 
> Hmm, Debian/stable (XFree86 4.1.0) hasn't this.  Looks like this is
> something new?  Anyone knows when this was added?

Yes, it's new in XFree 4.3.
 
> Exactly.  Where you can switch the resolution with Ctrl + Alt +
> plus/minus.  This resolution switching can also be done using
> the VidMode extention, and this is used by xawtv to go to
> fullscreen at 640x480 ...

Oh, so VidMode does not change the actual size of the root window,
just changes the size of the "viewport"

Xrandr changes the size of the root window, so it doesn't introduce a
scrolling/viewport effect.

Havoc