According to calberty (sometime around Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:09:16PM -0600):
> >
> > method 1: X :1, then run with DISPLAY=localhost:1.
>
> Theres something vmware uses to do this without the overhead of another X i
> think its dga and what it does is you hit alt+f8 and X handles it still but its
> like your in the os your booting all the keys work cept ctrl+alt+fx and stuff
> like that its the fullscreen mode however for method 1 that you suggested try
> ratpoisen its a window manager like screen and it auto full screens things
> (even xmms) and it has no window decorations. search freshmeat.net for
> ratpoisen.
VMWare actually has a kernel driver that intercepts the Ctrl+Atl+F8
(or whatever the approprite VC switch key is) and tells the VMWare
client about it before switching to the X server it was running
on. VMware then just puts itself in full-screen DGA mode (like
pressing Full Screen in the client). I know this because when I
upgraded to XFree 4 my DGA stopped working, and pressing alt-F8 put me
directly in the real X server with the error that I had gotten on
previous attempts at fullscreen.
On the other hand, this is non-free software, so that's a very
educated guess unless I look at the raw X protocol information.
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