Hello All,

Please forgive me if this is newbie question:

I am trying to create a border-less application (i.e. fullscreen). I started with KDevelope "Simple Hello World" app but can't figure out if I can remove the border and go into fullscreen mode with these.

I then tried SVGALIB to avoid X all together but I soon hit a brick wall trying to support TrueType fonts (can't make FreeType work).

Any advice would be most appreciated at this point.... I just really don't know what the right plan of attack would be.

Thanks in advance!

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Define border? In X, window borders are usually always set to zero as they are just about useless these days. But perhaps you meant window borders drawn by the window manager. In that case, you simply have to go around the window manager, use "CWOverrideRedirect" in the valuemask when creating a new window, and in the attibutes structure, simply set "override_redirect" to true. (note: im assuming you are using X directly thru xlib)

SciYro,

Thanks for the reply. I am so much a newb that your explanation will need to bounce around my big evil head for a few days before I can make sense of it.

Also, forgive my clumsy attempt to describe what it is I am trying to do. I can't even converse in the proper context yet.

The bottom line is my app needs to fill the entire screen with data. i.e. every pixel horizontally and vertically must be rendered by my app. I am not allowed to have any borders/frames/outlines - whatever they should be called in Linux - surrounding my apps output. I think what I am trying to say is the app must run fullscreen??

I am lucky in that the required resolution for my app is 640x480x256 so I already have a supported video mode. If I could just be utilize all pixels on the entire screen, I would be GOLDEN!

Sorry if I am not stating all this in a Linux-centric framework. I just started getting my feet wet in this world and it's a lot to bite off at once.

Thanks for your patience.

-reverb-

Why just use SDL? It can do fullscreen mode automatically, with a simple API, and no need to deal with xlib (its a very bad library).

OK.... This is good.

You have illustrated my problem perfectly. I do not know what is available/best for the given problem.

Based on a quick Google search, I assume that SDL refers to Simple DirectMedia Layer, yes? I'll read-up on SDL now!

As always, thanks for the pointer and your patience.

-reverb-

SciYro,

Got SDL installed and it does exactly what I needed. Thanks so much for your guidance!

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