On 06.07.2011, at 16:26, Chris Muller wrote:

>> It's much harder under Linux than on Windows or Mac because there is a gazillion of window managers, not a single UI. Making it work in a specific environment might be doable. In particular if you could point out another program that does it the way you like - do you know any? You could inspect its window properties using xprop.
> 
> Firefox seems to do it mostly right.  Press F11 in Firefox to go
> full-screen, I can still bring up other windows via Alt+Tab...
> 
> GwenView too..

Good. So what X properties does FireFox set in its fullscreen mode? There must be some, to get stacked above the system toolbar and menu.

- Bert -