On Gwe, 2004-05-21 at 17:48, Jon Smirl wrote:
There are two types of VTs - text and graphical. It is only practical to have a single graphical VT because of the complexity of state swapping a graphical VT at VT swap.
Could have fooled me. I can switch between multiple DRI using X servers and text consoles and it works currently. So clearly it is *not* too complex. If you have mode setting there is little else required since you can simply declare it to be the job of the client switched onto, to get its data back in order.
The trouble with that is that when a new client comes along and starts twiddling some new state that nobody else touched, suddenly you have to update all the old clients to get them to restore that state.
Keith
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