[MPlayer-dev-eng] WM detection

[gabor farkas]

i wanted to ask this a long time ago...

as i follow these conversations about wm - fullscreen problems...

the problem is that the various window managers aren't standard
compliant?

or there is no specification/standard for an application going
fullscreen?

thanks,
gabor

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:45:14PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Perhaps this is naive, but why does MPlayer need to detect every
> > single WM out there for fullscreen to work? SDL's fullscreen seems to
> > work with almost anything from what I understand, so why not just
> > borrow some code from SDL or immitate the techniques SDL uses?
> do it, patches are welcomed
> 
> sdl does the same for fullscreen as our -vm switch - so it switch away from
> the desktop to a new mode...
> 
> gtk also has wm-independent fullscreen stuff, it opens 2(!) windows at init,
> one for fullscreen and one for windowed mode, and move the content and hide
> teh spare one when switch... ugly way.
> 
> i also don't like this wm-detection stuff, but it seems to be the only way
> if you disagree, try to implement (or steal code) it adn send patches...
> pontscho is working on it for weeks...
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
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