Grant McDorman wrote: > 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.
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. > 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. Apart from the panels in Gnome and KDE, the programs I use generally have normal resizable windows, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Thank you for the information! Bjvrn Persson _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
