Further notes on 7.4

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:45:19PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> It doesn't seem to difficult to me to do, from the X API/protocol
> side. Sure some very weird programs expecting static Screen linkage
> will get confused, but users needing such will just have to 
> disable the new features: nothing lost, nothing gained for them.
> If your X server code can't with reasonable effort be modified 
> to handle that.. well, you've done some really crappy code. 
> 
> Anyway, once root windows are fully dynamic -- when X has a 
> dynamic multi-display "model" layer -- you could so far as
> restoring xinerama/xvidmode/stuff as the "view" layer, mapping
> any part of any window to any physical display, that can display
> the visual chosen for the window. (Different windows could even
> be mapped to different virtual consoles, assuming there's any 
> point to that.) I think this could work nicely together with 
> Composite (and its troubles): want to bypass composite indirectness
> for a full-screen (game) window? Just map it directly to a screen.

Hi,
Please don't let us stop you; sounds like a fun experiment.

Cheers,
Daniel
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