Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Wednesday 28 of November 2007, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:33:31AM -0800, David Trowbridge wrote:
> > This is fine for the plain old xinerama way of doing things where
> > monitors are arranged via "LeftOf" and the like.  It doesn't cope at all
> > with the complexities
> > introduced by the new RandR hotness (which basically lets you put a
> > monitor anywhere on the framebuffer that you like).
>
> I don't understand how anything anyone has talked about can deal in
> a sensible way with arbitrary arrangements of monitors on the
> frame-buffer -- in fact, I don't even know what basic things like
> the existing _NET_FULLSCREEN would mean in this case.
>
> Do you have a plan that handles these complexities?  Could you
> elaborate on it?

 That'a very good point. I myself don't see how one could reasonably handle 
anything that doesn't look like current Xinerama setups, except by simply 
ignoring the screens that don't fit. I'm pretty upset by libXinerama on 
openSUSE10.3 with Intel now claiming that there are e.g. two screens 
1400x1050+0+0 and 1024x768+0+0.

 Which I guess means, unless somebody has some great idea, that we can ignore 
all this "RandR hotness".

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