Any plan to promote coordinats to 32 bits?

Teika Kazura teika at lavabit.com
Mon Nov 22 23:32:19 PST 2010


Dear List,
X coordinates are 16 bits, but are there any plan to promote them
to 32 bits? I couldn't find one in the Xorg site.

In fact, 16 bits are not sufficient these days. If you have
several screens and enlarge your desktop with a window manager
to several X screens width / height, it can easily exceed 32767. Is
this fact known to X developement society?

I know it's not easy, but at least this fact has to be known,
I thought.

Best regards,
Teika (Teika kazura)




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