When you say virtual desktops, do you mean window manager virtual root windows? Full-screen apps go full screen by circumventing the window manager (via override redirect), which would have put window decorations on it and prevented it from going full screen. I don't think you could do what you want to do without communicating with the window manager somehow. I know very little about window manager interfaces so I don't know if such a capability already exists. In short, full-screen apps are created by going around the window manager, which is what gives you your virtual desktops. Normally, what the window manager does is look for windows that are created as immediate children of the root window. Then they reparent that window to one of their own virtual root windows. Full screen apps request a full size child of the root (and on top of the stack) and prevent the window manager from reparenting by setting the override redirect flag which prevents the window manager from getting notification about this window. Mark. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 22:36, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > I don't understand the question. How is it possible to run > > 2 full-screen applications? Do you have a non-standard definition > > of "full-screen" ? :) > > Well, here's 2 examples: > 1. > I can run 2 normal size mplayers on 2 different virtual desktops. I can run > one full-screen mplayer on one virtual desktop, and one normal size mplayer > on another, but I cannot run 2 full-screen mplayers on 2 different virtual > desktops. > 2. I have a front-end for MAME that I'd like to run full-screen. If I call > xmame full-screen from that front-end it will not appear. Since starting > xmame takes time, I don't want to turn the screen black (by basically ending > the full-screen front-end program) while xmame loads the game, and then > rebuild the screen after xmame ends. I just want a full-screen xmame to place > itself over the front-end, and have the front-end reappear directly when > xmame is done. > > Regards, > > Pieter Hulshoff > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
