Teika Kazura wrote:
X coordinates are 16 bits, but are there any plan to promote them
to 32 bits? I couldn't find one in the Xorg site.
In fact, 16 bits are not sufficient these days. If you have
several screens and enlarge your desktop with a window manager
to several X screens width /
Hi Teika,
As far as I know there hasn't been a lot of development to fix that,
theres not enough pain for now.
Unfourtunatly it would mean re-implementing a lot of X11's core
protocol as new extensions.
Probably a better way to fix that would be to create X12, or to use
something different like
Teika Kazura wrote:
Dear List,
X coordinates are 16 bits, but are there any plan to promote them
to 32 bits? I couldn't find one in the Xorg site.
It's not a simple promotion but breaking compatibility with the
existing protocol - it's on the list of things to fix if we ever
get around to a
Le 23/11/2010 17:22, Alan Coopersmith a écrit :
Several? I've yet to see many common monitors larger than 2560 pixels,
so that's still 14 screens wide/high.
http://insitu.lri.fr/Projects/WILD
Yes this is research, yes we won't have that on our wrist watches any
time soon...
But! InSitu's
Rémi Cardona wrote:
Le 23/11/2010 17:22, Alan Coopersmith a écrit :
Several? I've yet to see many common monitors larger than 2560 pixels,
so that's still 14 screens wide/high.
http://insitu.lri.fr/Projects/WILD
Yes this is research, yes we won't have that on our wrist watches any
time
Dear List,
X coordinates are 16 bits, but are there any plan to promote them
to 32 bits? I couldn't find one in the Xorg site.
In fact, 16 bits are not sufficient these days. If you have
several screens and enlarge your desktop with a window manager
to several X screens width / height, it can
