Re: SDL vs GGI

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> > ...so all I do is create an undecorated borderless window that
> > is the same size as the screen.  You can still push the window to
> > the back, resize it, iconify it, etc if you want to - but if you
> > don't, it stays there and you are immersed.
 
> Yes, that's what I mean. How do you do an undecorated window that is
> still resizable and everything? Doesn't override_redirect prevent that?
> The only way I know how to do a fullscreen window without any X
> extension like DGA is to create a window of size DisplayWidth,
> DisplayHeight at position 0, 0 with the override_redirect flag on.

Erm - please don't mistake me for an X-windows Guru - I do all my
work through toolkits that hide all the ugly Xlib stuff.  The
short answer is that I know it can be done - but I have no idea
how (in detail at least).

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