-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello xorg-devel list I would like to request a feature addition. When someone wishes to use X on a home theater they have a very real problem with over scan of the TV. The TV will clip many pixels all the way around the image. This means that scroll bars are not visible on the TV screen and menu bars are cut in half, if visible at all.
It would be great if there was a setting to have a black, or a designated color, border around the image from X. This would foul the TV and allow the user to see all of the screen. Unfortunately different brands of TV's have different ways of dealing with over scan so the size of the border needs to be set by the user and not preset to some specific value. The Microsoft windowing system has ways to deal with this problem so they are the dominate system for home theaters. But I personally don't want to reduce the level of my operating system for this feature. I would be very appreciative of this as I'm sure millions of other people would be. Also I suspect it wouldn't be that difficult. I haven't delved into the code for X but it seems to me to just be a linear transformation from r2 to r2, not that big of a deal. Or one could just add lines of black pixels on all sides and the TV wouldn't know the difference, brute force sometimes is the best way. I truly hope you consider adding this feature. It would help me out and many others as well. It would also open a market for X that currently is being ignored. With the advent of high speed internet sites such as www.hulu.com and www.joost.com television and movies are coming into the home on demand. I currently use X to view these sights but to navigate them I use x11-vnc and my laptop to see all of the screen. Please help me out and millions of others and implement this feature. Thank you Joseph Murphy PS If this is already possible and I am just ignorant of how to accomplish it please educate me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wkYEARECAAYFAkpfjhUACgkQWxjNVzInnhW2NwCdGOSBBmNkl4cawK7myY5iUPBwWIAA oKuE8p5eXKaxspwp0XL5+kMNWpZN =806s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
