On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:47:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > At least in XF3, this was not possible. It might have changed in XF4, > but I severely doubt it. It's a limitation of the X protocol; the root > window can not be resized.
Actually, Jim Getts (yes, *the* Jim Gettys who is one of the fathers of X itself), is currently revising a whitepaper proposing an "RnR" (Rotate and Resize) extension to the X protocol that I believe is supposed to permit such changes in root window geometry. The nice thing is that I think pretty much only window managers, DGA, and DRI clients will need to use this extension directly. I could be wrong, but I think all conventional clients will get the benefit for free, since their geometries are completely parented by the window manager. -- G. Branden Robinson | Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux | half an animal is only half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Thornton Wilder http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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