Re: RFC: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS property

["David Trowbridge" <trowbrds gmail com>]

As far as I can tell, reading through this again, people seem to be
generally happy with the idea of a FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint
per-window.  Is this actually the case, and if so, what happens next?

-David


On 3/12/07, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >> It does make sense to me that certain apps (games, vmware) might say
> >> "cover multiple monitors" where the multiple monitors are distinct
> >> spaces (what I called "b)" originally) for all other apps.
> >
> >  Why? I don't see a single reason why VMWare should be able to change how
> > Konqueror goes fullscreen.
>
> I think you interpreted my comment backward from what I was trying to
> say, I didn't mean vmware should change the global state.
>
> >
> >> So I'd go
> >> with Elijah and say the hint makes sense, though I'm not clear yet on
> >> whether it should cover only fullscreen behavior or all "xinerama
> >> awareness"
> >>
> >> I do think some of the other issues raised need addressing, but they
> >> appear orthogonal to this hint since this hint assumes case b) and
> >> doesn't take a position on how we distinguish a) and b)
> >
> >  And do we need to take position on a)? As you said, in such case Xinerama
> > settings should pretend there's no Xinerama.
>
> I think it would be better if the X server simply didn't report
> xinerama, but last time we tried the X hackers couldn't be convinced, so
> perhaps we need to set our own XSETTING-type global desktop property.
>
> Havoc
>
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