>> Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not in any portable way. You don't know the cliplist or anything. > Even if you did find out where the framebuffer was and map it you'd > don't know for certain where the window is and you don't know when > the server is VT switched away or when access to the framebuffer is > blocked (in some multihead configurations) and you'd need root > permissions to map the framebuffer anyhow. This kind of thing > shouldn't be done by clients.
Funny you should mention this... the Linux NVIDIA drivers expose the framebuffer to anyone with read access to /dev/nvidia*, and it's not that hard to find out the offset at which it is. I've always considered it a security problem, but I've never made a big fuss out of it. M. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
