-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 22, 2003 08:13 pm, Bjvrn Persson wrote: > > >but what about Unix? Does the X architecture allow changing the size of > > > a desktop at all? > > > > Yes. You can switch X Resolution with hotkeys. > > I tried it in my first Redhat installation three years ago. It changed the > screen resolution but not the desktop size, so when I didn't use the > highest resolution I could only see a part of the desktop at a time. But if > the desktop size can be changed too, that's great, because then support for > it can be added to XVNC too.
Up until very recently, X did not provide any way to change the desktop size. However, there is now an extension, RandR (Resize and Rotate) which provides this capability. It was introduced into XFree86 in late 2002. XVnc, as far as I know, uses an older base for XFree86 that doesn't include the RandR extension. In any event, this would not fit well into what you want to do - RandR is required to provide a list of available screen sizes (and depths); unfortunately, for XVnc the range of sizes is (in theory at least) unlimited. On top of that a few applications would not deal very well with the desktop being resized - prior to last year, applications could assume that the size never changed. The extension does include handling to make sure that such applications don't crash, but they may end up too big if you reduce your desktop size. - -- Grant McDorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sr. Software Design Consultant Cedara Software Corp. <URL:http://www.cedara.com> (formerly I.S.G. Technologies Inc.) Mississauga, Ontario, Canada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (SunOS) iD8DBQE+fyevLVa+EmyjizARAiamAKCU/yGTuwEJtV0eBaemMJm4q+krogCeIIuf ksOEfMb/OXhB53m+z+egJWE= =RtP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
