> 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..


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 05.07.2011, at 21:51, Chris Muller wrote:
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>> Does anyone like full-screen mode besides me?  Years ago, when I used
>> Windows, I would always run my Squeak images full-screen because there
>> is something zen-like about being totally immersed into the image
>> environment - it can be nicer experience than running with OS window
>> and the start-bar cruft showing.
>>
>> But now I'm using Linux and, under that VM, full-screen mode does not
>> allow any other windows to be displayed over full-screen Squeak.  For
>> example, I can't press Alt+Tab to bring my command-window to the top,
>> it appears for a split second but then Squeak paints right back over
>> it, but without keyboard focus!  The only way to access any other
>> program is to bring Squeak out of full-screen mode.
>>
>> Which is why the button to go full-screen was recently put to the
>> upper-right corner - to facilitate the constant switching needed to be
>> able to run full-screen.
>>
>> However, there is a danger with going full-screen.  Cog is not very
>> friendly to being interrupted - doing so often seems to lock the image
>> - and this is a bad situation in full-screen mode since you can't get
>> to any other windows to kill the process.  The only option is a
>> hard-power off - an ungraceful shutdown - losing all unsaved data in
>> all applications - ouch!
>>
>> Would it be difficult for the Linux VM to behave similarly to the
>> Windows VM w.r.t. full-screen mode?
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> 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.
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