Re: X launch hijack?

Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> posted:

When I want to play OpenTTD full-screen,I have launched
"xinit openttd" and had this bring up the game full-screen, ...

to which I replied:

man 1 xinit says:
   "Both the client program name and the server program name must begin
   with a slash (/) or a period (.).  Otherwise, they are treated as an
   arguments to be appended to their respective startup lines."

Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> replied:

Is this a recent change to functionality?

An xinit man page from 1990 that has copyright 1988 says the same thing,
so not what I'd call recently.

I know "xinit openttd" worked before.

Don't know.  "xinit `which openttd`", which isn't much longer, should
work, I would think.  If you define openttd as an environment variable,
you could even do "xinit $openttd".  :)

The other thing I don't understand is why you need to do that at all.
X11 programs are entirely capable of having their window be full-screen
size even after a standard xinit/startx startup, so I would think you
wouldn't need to do a special startup to get full-screen, unless that's
an openttd issue.
 -WBE