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• Remove combined resolution when not using vidmode (sdl2-multimonitor-resolution-fix.patch, text/plain, 2013-06-25 09:52:28 +0000, 1902 bytes)

Reported in version: HG 2.0
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, All

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2013-06-25 09:52:28 +0000, David Gow wrote:

Created attachment 1196
Remove combined resolution when not using vidmode

On X11, when Xinerama is enabled, it will return a mode (for the display at (0,0)) with the combined resolution of all desktops. (http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/tip/src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c#l692 ) While this matches SDL 1.2's behaviour, such a mode does not work correctly with the XRandR backend.

Indeed, on Linux systems, fullscreen modes cannot exceed the resolution of the monitor they are on, as the EWMH fullscreen hint causes a window to cover only a single monitor — or the monitors set by NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS, which is not implemented in SDL, and window manager support is a bit spotty.

The solution I have (in the attached patch) is to remove this extra mode (whose presence does not match other OSes) except when using XVidMode, and otherwise replace it with the current video modes used by each monitor, as reported by Xinerama.

-- David

On 2013-07-06 15:33:08 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Yup, this looks good to me. Thanks!
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/9b4430c49235

Feel free to submit other improvements to the X11 mode handling. I admit I'm at the limit of my skill dealing with window managers. :)