X11 fullscreen

Harald Braumann harry at unheit.net
Thu Jan 28 13:11:29 PST 2010


On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:51:14 +0100
Dirk De Becker <Dirk.DeBecker at dzine.be> wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what 
> information John needs.
> The answers:
> - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be
> on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be able
> to switch between being "inside a window" and being "on top of
> everything else", but for now, being on top of everything else will
> do just fine.
> - At present, I will not be changing the resolution (again, this will 
> probably be added in the future).
> - I will not do 3D stuff, videos might be possible.

Maybe SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/) is for you. You can do fullscreen and
windowed mode, it is supported by cairo and you can do video (and 3D
too).

harry
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