Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

Carsten Haitzler raster at rasterman.com
Tue Sep 5 04:18:15 UTC 2023


On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev
<volodya at mindspring.com> said:

> The cool thing however, is that I can launch xeyes and it works just the 
> same as when it was created decades ago. This is because people back then 
> thought through the mathematical model of what they are doing, and did not 
> just "softwared" their way to a kludge that needed compatibility breaking 
> changes every year the way python does.

hear hear. api stability has been one of x's shining bits. it's got ugly parts
- but not breaking is one of its positive points. evolving instead.

> best
> 
> Vladimir Dergachev
> 
> > -- 
> > regards,
> > Zbigniew
> >


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