Re: Proposing _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN_EXCLUSIVE

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:10:31 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:58:33 -0400 "Ryan C. Gordon" <[email protected]> said:

> 
> > really - your current use case is that?
> 
> It's a historical accident of compatibility with other OSes. We'll 
> probably refactor this in SDL once this spec is finalized.

oh... really? how.. interesting. in x11 it shouldn't need this and thus end up
with fewer "artifacts". :) oddly something x11 is better at. :)

> We'll definitely want to be able to toggle fullscreen/windowed with 
> mapped windows, though. I suppose the spec should note that condition 
> (if the fullscreen hint is removed, go back to original resolution).

indeed. it should work as an initial property on map as well as "while already
mapped".

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