[IAEP] Running regular X11 apps

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 11:19 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>
>>> There are ways we can implement different behavior for different
>>> windows (for example the maximus approach could be extended to do so).
>>> The problem is, how do we know which windows should be displayed
>>> fullscreen (say the firefox or the gedit one) and which not (the
>>> gimp)? afaik there is no window hint which could help us there...
>>>
>>
>> There are ICCCM/EWMH hints to request full screen behavior, already
>> implemented by window managers: e.g. totem or other video players use
>> these routinely.
>
> Here we was discussing the approach used by maximus. They are
> basically maximizing/undecorating windows whenever they are mapped (as
> long as they are normal windows and not dialogs). Now this works for
> something like firefox, but for gimp there is no hint that tells you
> that the tools window should *not* be maximized.
>
> About the fullscreen hint. Sayamindu tried out that approach but he
> run into problems. One of them was that panels are hidden by
> fullscreen windows (and we made the sugar frame a panel). But I think
> there was others.
>

Fullscreen seems to be significantly different from maximized +
undecorated. The only sugar activity I can think of which uses
fullscreen mode at certain times is Record.

Cheers,
Sayamindu

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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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