> - Programs that offer a "select screen resolution" requester present a > list whose largest vertical/Y resolution is 22 pixel less than what > the monitor offers. I believe OSX reserves some place for its menu > bar. Lower resolution entries, e.g. 1024x768 and 800x600, are > listed normally. They work in desktop window mode.
Yep, I'm told this is a limitation of the X server that runs in OSX. > - Programs that want to make use of full screen fail or hang somehow. > The issue may be two-fold: > a) full screen does not work at all, or > b) switching to full screen resolutions less than my LCD's native > resolution does not work, and applications do not cope with that. > E.g. many want to display a low-resolution intro video. I don't know anything about this. > - Approx. two monthes ago, a hybrid desktop mode was implemented in > Wine: eliminate the desktop window when it matches the full screen > size; recreate it when switching back to lower resolutions. I've > not observed that effect either, but the idea is brilliant. That's doubly broken on OSX I'm afraid. It needs to know about the menu bar area, and it needs a window manager that understands _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN. I'm told CrossOver has some hacks for this that will work if a program changes the screen size through DirectX, but they won't work for virtual desktops. -- Vincent Povirk
