fullscreen support for games

[Glynn Clements]

Tomas Carnecky 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?

No. It doesn't allow you to change the size of the screen either, only
the size of the viewport.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>