Teika Kazura wrote: > Dear List, > X coordinates are 16 bits, but are there any plan to promote them > to 32 bits? I couldn't find one in the Xorg site.
It's not a simple "promotion" but breaking compatibility with the existing protocol - it's on the list of things to fix if we ever get around to a major compatibility breaking revision: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12#A15bitcoordinatelimit > In fact, 16 bits are not sufficient these days. If you have > several screens and enlarge your desktop with a window manager > to several X screens width / height, it can easily exceed 32767. Several? I've yet to see many common monitors larger than 2560 pixels, so that's still 14 screens wide/high. > Is this fact known to X developement society? Of course. We are capable of basic math. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
