<AWT Dev> <AWT dev>[9] Review request for 8022810: Cannot list all the available display modes on Ubuntu linux in case of two screen devices

[Semyon Sadetsky]

On 5/31/2016 4:53 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:

> On 31.05.16 0:21, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>> setDisplayMode() has been working if Xinerama is off. When Xinerama is
>> on it could not set some modes for the screen 0 if there were
>> incompatible modes from other screens in the list, and for all other
>> screens there were no modes.
>
> I am talking about Xinerama mode only, since it is affected by the 
> fix. I am not sure I am understand what you mean above. In java we 
> have separate list of GraphicsDevices. Each GraphicsDevice have its 
> own list of modes(which returned from getDisplayModes()) all these 
> modes should be supported by this GraphicsDevice, so 
> GraphicsDevice.setDisplayMode() should not throw an exception or 
> should not ignore these modes.
>
> From the bug description I see that currently in case of xinerama we 
> return only current mode as supported mode, so setDisplayMode() is 
> noop. But after the fix 
This is not true. Current mode is returned for screen > 0
> the list of supported modes changed and my question was: what happens 
> when these modes will be passed to setDisplayMode() (of course modes 
> and setDisplayMode should be from one GraphicsDevice object).
the same as before the fix.
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Do you see any other concerns to the fix?