Re: _net_wm_state_fullscreen

[Iban HATCHONDO <hatchond yahoo fr>]

 --- Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> a écrit : > On
Wednesday 19 of March 2003 00:43, Havoc
> Pennington wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:57:46PM +0100, Iban
> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > >   - Gerd Knorr already ask for this one, and the
> answer seems obscure to
> > > me: when an application wants to change the
> screen resolution we have two
> > > solutions (as far as I understood the thread):
> VidMode and Xrandr. But it
> > > does not tell me what I have to do ? (except
> that if everyone use Xrandr
> > > I should do the expected work, because the sizes
> of the root window has
> > > changed)
> >
> > For Xrandr you should clearly resize all
> fullscreen windows to
> > the new root window size.
> 
>  IMHO using Xrandr for screen resizing isn't a very
> good way of doing it.
> Video players sometimes resize to quite small video
> sizes, and since other
> apps react on root window size changes too, which
> could lead to such
> unpleasant effects like desktop icons stacked in the
> upper left corner.

Make sens to me ! Any comments ?

> > For VidMode, it probably makes sense to make
> > them track the monitor viewport.
> 
>  Has some WM actually already some support for this?
> Given that '/* The
> XF86VIDMODE_EVENTS code is far from complete */'
> (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext),
> I don't see any way how the WM could detect vidmode
> changes - is there any?
> There's nothing about it in the docs.

It was another part of my question.
Well ...

Iban.


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