[Qt-interest] fullscreen windows on X11 +Xinerama

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 11:51:51 am Wesley Smith wrote:
> I'm having some issues trying to get fullscreen windows to span
> multiple heads on X11 with Xinerama.  I'm on ubuntu Jaunty with Qt
> 4.3.  From what I can tell, the window manager is restricting windows
> to be the size of one monitor.  I've also tried setting the window to
> be borderless with a size equivalent to the multi-head display and i'm
> not able to get the window beyond one monitor without dragging it
> manually.
> 
> I've managed to get a proper multihead fullscreen window in X11
> directly using XSetWindowAttrbutes.override_redirect = True and adding
> the CWOverrideRedirect flag to the window mask field of XCreateWindow.
>  Now I'm looking for a way to do this through Qt.  Is there any way
> for meet to somehow add these flags while still using QWidget's show
> method to turn a widget into a window?

If not, then you can still do an XCreateWindow and then use that when you call 
QWidget::create(...).

Clint