X11 fullscreen

[Russell Shaw]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide
>> all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged
>> sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really
>> nontrivial running this month.
> 
> Unless you need to get any real work done - like non western font
> rendering, accessibility (to make your app meet legal requirements in
> parts of the world etc)

One can do all that with their own libraries based on Xlib. I don't use
any Xlib font functions.

> I'm also not sure why you'd want to use Xlib nowdays. I mean Xlib has a
> serial non-threaded model without callbacks that causes apps to block
> on queries - problems you won't have if you hand code the X11 message
> parser yourself in optimised assembler ;)

No way to avoid it. You can't draw on a window until you've waited for
the first expose event etc.

Is Xlib thread re-entrant? If not, i may do something about that.