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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.net)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:00:38 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 chef@mindlink.net wrote:
> Does this mean that changing bit depth and virtual resolution necessitate
> terminating the server (and therefore all client apps) and then re-starting
> the server?
Yes.
> Are the client apps unable to persist in the absence of the server, while
> the server is resetting itself?
Yes. Some of the state of the client apps is stored in the server
itself. Windows is similar in this regard; programs that use the
GUI cannot persist when the GUI is shut down.
> And just to piss everyone off...Windows can do it! What is different about
> the Windows GUI design that makes this possible?
Windows has apparently implemented some hackery to deal with sending
resize messages to applications when the screen size changes, and
deal with applications that no longer have the number of colours
they did when they started. Note that Windows 95 didn't allow
changing colour depth, and even Windows 98 usually warns you that
some applications may not work correctly after the change.
cjs
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