Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Thursday 29 of November 2007, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 8:30 AM, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
> >  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".
>
> So, given that, what do you think about using a hint that specifies
> width & height (small integers specifying monitor counts instead of
> pixel counts) rather than having a strict set of monitors on which the
> window must lie?  Am I missing something?

 That would be fine for the case I can easily imagine (video players), but I 
guess this really depends on how exactly VMWare would want to use this hint. 
And how it would cope with getting something different than it hoped for.

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