X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk De Becker
Hi all, I want to make an application in C/C++ that draws fullscreen stuff on an X11 server. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Kind regards, Dirk attachment: Dirk_DeBecker.vcf___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk De Becker
I just want to draw some stuff on screen, probably using cairo, but I want this not in a window, but on the full screen. Kind regards, Dirk John Tapsell wrote: 2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be: Hi all, I want to make an application in C/C++ that draws fullscreen

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be: Hi all, I want to make an application in C/C++ that draws fullscreen stuff on an X11 server. Can anyone tell me how to do this? What are you trying to do exactly? What does your program do? John ___

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be: I just want to draw some stuff on screen, probably using cairo, but I want this not in a window, but on the full screen. That gives me zero new information. ___ xorg mailing list

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk De Becker
Presently, I am using gtk to create a drawable surface for cairo to draw on, but I am wondering whether or not gtk is slowing the drawing down a lot. Therefor, I was wondering whether it is possible to do some drawing with cairo, but not using gtk windows. However, I would preferably have my

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk De Becker
Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be able to switch between being inside a window and being

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:51 +0100, Dirk De Becker wrote: Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Dirk De Becker wrote: Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be able to switch between

Re: Keyboard buttons event-based or device based?

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:22:56AM +0100, Crypto wrote: I am not sure if this is related to xorg, maybe it is related to KDE, Gnome etc. I often connect an external USB keyboard to my notebook for faster typing. In KDE etc. (i.e. GUI) applications it is often possible to re-assign

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au writes: Dirk De Becker wrote: Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Alan Cox
Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non western font

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Glynn Clements
Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. On the contrary, using bare Xlib you would be

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Harald Braumann
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:51:14 +0100 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be wrote: Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. On the contrary, using

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:41:04PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. You

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Alan Cox
One can do all that with their own libraries based on Xlib. I don't use any Xlib font functions. And how is your Gujerati and accessibility ... ? I'm also not sure why you'd want to use Xlib nowdays. I mean Xlib has a serial non-threaded model without callbacks that causes apps to block

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/29 Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org: Please, please, stop telling people to write their own toolkits; it's quite possibly the worst advice I've ever heard on this list, to be honest. Not to mention that people are starting to demand cross-platform apps. John

Prebuilt Xserver binaries for SH-4 architecture

2010-01-28 Thread Wu Liming
Hi, Is there anybody can give me a mamnual to compile the Xserver? I have download the all the source code in version X11R7.5. My board is in SH-4 architeture. But I have no idea to compile them and I kown it's very compicated. So, can anybody help me? An install script maybe

Re: Prebuilt Xserver binaries for SH-4 architecture

2010-01-28 Thread Younes Manton
2010/1/28 Wu Liming wulim...@cn.fujitsu.com: Hi,    Is there anybody can give me a mamnual to compile the Xserver?    I have download the all the source code in version X11R7.5.    My board is in SH-4 architeture.    But I have no idea to compile them and I kown it's very compicated.    So,

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk De Becker
Harald Braumann wrote: Maybe SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/) is for you. You can do fullscreen and windowed mode, it is supported by cairo and you can do video (and 3D too). harry Thanks Harry, I will look into this. Dirk attachment:

[ANNOUNCE] libvdpau 0.4

2010-01-28 Thread Aaron Plattner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pleased to announce the release of libvdpau 0.4. In addition to a couple of documentation updates, this release adds infrastructure for libvdpau to query the VDPAU back-end driver name from the X server using version 1.2 of the DRI2 extension.