-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 24, 2003 12:38 pm, Bjvrn Persson wrote: > > 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. > > Hmm, if that list of available sizes is a vital part of the implementation > and not just a way to simplify the user interface, I suppose there must > have been a very good reason to do it that way.
It''s this way because virtually every implementation - except VNC (and other virtual displays, which are rare) - have only a limited range of sizes the hardware can display (e.g. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768). Under Microsoft Windows, the hardware is probed to determine the list of sizes presented in Display Properties; under XFree86, I suspect the list comes from the configuration file (that's the list you cycle through by Ctrl+Alt+NumPadPlus or Minus, when changing the display but not the desktop). Note, by the way, that RandR is currently only in recent versions of XFree86 (perhaps only the most recent, although I haven't checked). Other platforms - such as Sun Solaris - don't support it at all (and likely won't, since the hardware, in most cases, is single resolution). - -- 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+f1uTLVa+EmyjizARAqYMAJ9OPcD98JE5eSgT0C+fmRD4qRMWjACfSahU dHFwWNFLgO6TmaPD1FUmkkU= =SJd8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
