Hi all, My name is Philip Langdale and I work at VMware. Some of you may know from me from some of the other projects I've worked on like Galeon, but I'm largely here with my work hat on.
It's possible some of you may have noticed the latest Vmware Xorg video driver changes to go in which add Xinerama support. This is part of a larger feature in the upcoming Workstation 6 which is to support the reflection of host multi-head into a guest. At this point, you can guess where I'm going. To do this properly we will need to construct a fullscreen window that spans multiple heads, up to and including all heads. Right now, the wm spec only defines fullscreen for a single head, so doing multi-head fullscreen requires us to fall back to the techniques of the pre-single-head-fullscreen days - and as you may know, metacity tries terribly terribly hard to make hand-rolled fullscreen windows impossible. We think we can probably manage it by abusing window type hints (ie: expect the biggest 'notification' window you've ever seen...) but this obviously very sub-optimal. As such, we really hope that formal handling for multi-head fullscreen can be added to the upcoming 1.4 release of the wm spec. Obviously, a more formal discussion of the mechanism and wording will be necessary, but the simple concept needs to be discussed and validated first. I eagerly await your thoughts. Thanks, --phil _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
