X fullscreen (was: Squeak on an iPAQ)

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri Sep 22 15:25:50 UTC 2000


On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> Speaking of full-screen under X, it recently stopped working properly for
> me.  It's likely more a problem of the window manager I'm using (kwin)
> but I'm not sure what to submit to them (not being an Xlib person).
>
> Whenever I turn on full-screen mode I get a huge window, instead of having
> just squeak occupying the screen.  The window manager still attempts
> to decorate the window, giving me a title border and the left border.

Exact control of window size/position is something that's not easily
achieved in X. The client app just suggests to the window manager its
desired size, but it's not guaranteed to get it. See
http://www.tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ Section 4 for a nice complicated read
of X Client/WM communication.

> Is there any way to fix this?

I talked to Ian about this, and we have an idea. You can tell the WM to
leave its hands completely off a window (via override_redirect). That way
you gain full control over the window, you can even place it over the
"always on top" windows like taskbar etc. However, you loose all the
convenient functionality the WM provides, like focus assignment and color
map switching.

>  Or better, since I doubt this is a Squeak problem...can you give me
> any advice that I can use to bug the maintainers of KWin with?

Do they claim to be ICCCM-compliant? You could just ask someone how to get
an application the full screen.

-- Bert





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