RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

Harold,

OK then.
I'd say the reasonable trade-off that wouldn't hinder existing users would
be that you get to specify the size of the X display, to any resolution you
want, and ONLY if you have -scrollbars specified, then you can scroll the
window around to see all of it OR you can also stretch the window up to the
maximum you specified.

If you DON'T specify -scrollbars, then if your width or height are bigger
than the actual display you're running on, your window get clipped to the
maximum X or Y value the display supports. This is what it already does now.

Does that sound OK?


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Harold Hunt
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:54 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?

Jean-Claude,

> All that aside, it would be an interesting feature to implement user
> window-sizing to arbitrary resolutions via the -scrollbars
> parameter so that
> a user might stretch the X display to the size s/he wants. But
> I'm not clear
> on whether or not X allows resizing once an X 'console' has started. Does
> it?


Oops, that was one of the things I was going to mention.  It is not possible
to resize the X display after it has been initialized.  The RandR extension
will eventually allow this, but I am not sure if it is stable/complete yet.

Harold