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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by earenndil on Sunday July 07, 2019 @10:18PM (#20379437)
Exclusive fullscreen = application runs directly on the screenbuffer, bypassing the compositor. Not just that a window happens to be taking up the whole screen.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by PlutoIsAPlanet on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:39AM (#20380971)
This is never going to exist the same way it did in X, which was a hack around the X display model.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by Crinus on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:02AM (#20381341)
It doesn't matter how it is going to exist, what matters is for it to exist.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by earenndil on Monday July 08, 2019 @02:18PM (#20385273)
Well--no, not in the same way, but it can still be a hint passed along somewhere, to allow the compositor to swap out its root framebuffer for the program's.
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