fullscreen support for games

[Tomas Carnecky]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Andre Heynatz wrote:
>>The RandR X extension allows to change the resolution of a screen, but
>>not the depth. I have read that this is not supported because toolkits
>>have emulation code dealing with it.
> 
> It's not supported because other applications, having queried the
> screen depth and pixel format, won't deal well with it suddenly
> changing.
> 

and what about xf86VidMode? does this extension allow to change the 
screen depth?

tom