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You can absolutely do that on X11, but you have to do it in the client, and no one cares to do it.
by kelnos 1y ago
You can absolutely do that on X11, but you have to do it in the client, and no one cares to do it.
- em-bee 1y agoif you have to do it in the client, aka the application, then it's not transparent to the application
- p_l 1y agoIt's not transparent on Wayland or Windows (no idea about mac) either if you want actually properly drawn stuff. Well, ok, on Windows if you keep to certain standard elements of Windows API and only use standard widgets you could get close to transparency.
- rbanffy 1y agoIt'll not be transparent to an application using basic X APIs, but nothing prevents a higher level UI toolkit from implementing it properly.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoIf we can require applications to draw their own window controls, I think we can ask them to handle their pixel densities.
- em-bee 1y agothat's a good point. window controls should be at the proper scale too.
- account42 1y agoNo, you can't have a window with a different pixel size on one screen and another. Trying to emulate this using two windows would not achieve a smooth experience. OTOH it is questionable if this is really all that important. Most of the time if a window spans more than one screen it's temporary because you are just moving the window from one screen to another.