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Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:56:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:59:51 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
>> >> By fullscreen I mean no taskbar, emacs take all the screen estate.
>> >
>> > Isn't fullscreen display of some application window something the
>> > window manager should deal with, not the application itself? For
>> > example in KDE or stumpwm you can make any window fullscreen (via a
>> > window menu or a keybinding), and I'm sure it's the same for GNOME
>> > and most/all other windowmanagers.
>>
>> That's not fullscreen, but maximize.
>
> No, it's fullscreen. In KDE (4.1) it's rightklick on window decoration
> -> Advanced -> [X] at Fullscreen. In stumpwm (a tiling window manager,
> where all windows are maximized anyway) it's the `fullscreen' command.
Ok, I didn't know that.
>> The fullscreen mode has to be requested by the application.
>
> So how do those commands achive that?
Via the NETWM protocol, I guess.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, (continued)
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Tassilo Horn, 2008/08/19
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Jan Djärv, 2008/08/19
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Tassilo Horn, 2008/08/19
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Tom Tromey, 2008/08/19
- Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Jan Djärv, 2008/08/19
Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Andreas Schwab, 2008/08/19
Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Tom Tromey, 2008/08/19
Re: Proposal for a new API to fullscreen, Jason Rumney, 2008/08/19