<div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/10 Kristian Høgsberg <<a href="mailto:krh@bitplanet.net">krh@bitplanet.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Either way, a native resolution fullscreen mode is definitely planned. Both scaling (with or without aspect ratio/black bars) and native modes (we can page flip directly to the applications buffer) make sense, but I think that will be policy/configuration options in the compositor. What will be in the protocol will be a way to request to be fullscreen, which the compositor will honor when the application has focus, but it will always be possible to alt-tab away (or press the "home button" or similar). So the compositor is in control, it will change the resolution, scale and draw black bars, or maybe even just center the application window and fade out the rest of the desktop around it. </blockquote><div> Excellent! I can't wait for that! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> This also ties in with capturing the mouse pointer and relative events (which Carsten also talks about in his mail). Typically games also want to make sure the pointer stays inside the window and they want relative events. It's no good if you're trying to turn around in quake and the pointer leaves the window or hits the screen edge. X applications solve this by grabbing the mouse, confining it to the window and continuously warping the cursor into the center to simulate relative events. This is obviously a hack, and wayland isn't going to support open-ended pointer or keyboard grabs, nor warping the pointer. Instead, we provide relative events when the device generates them, and in fullscreen mode, all the events go to the fullscreen application, so no need to confine the pointer. </blockquote><div> Brilliant, the Wine project will love you guys - they've had a nightmare with the lack of relative mouse info from X (until recently) - that is of course if/when they write a Wayland driver. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Anyway, this is all kinda half-baked, but it is the general direction I see this going. Kristian </blockquote><div> Thanks Kristian! </div></div>