Resetting screen resolution on crash

[Henri Verbeet]

2009/11/18 Erich Hoover <ehoover at mines.edu>:
> I was reading the brief summary on WineConf
> (http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/171) and saw an interesting item:
>>
>> We need some help from Freedesktop.org for solving bug 10841.  Essentially
>> we need a standard way of saying “hey reset the resolution when I’m done,
>> even if I crash.” I was “volunteered” for the task of approaching the
>> respective projects.
>
>
> I believe this is a case that we can detect on our own, attached is a small
> standalone example of using fork() in such a way that you could reset the
> screen resolution even if an application crashed.
>
That's not what the bug is about. The bug is about the case where you
have a fullscreen application in a different resolution from the
desktop, and you switch to a different (non-fullscreen) application.
In that case the display resolution should be reset to the desktop
resolution again. At least part of that involves properly handling the
CDS_FULLSCREEN flag to ChangeDisplayMode().