On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:45:16PM +0000 I heard the voice of
Richmond, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> The problem is the TV is 1024x768 and the laptop is 1920x1200. So if
> I move the browser to the TV screen and press fullscreen (i.e. F11
> or the symbol at the bottom of Netflix), it makes the browser too
> big, i.e. it goes to fullscreen for the laptop.

This could be a Xinerama-related issue, in that the combined big
pseudo-screen Xinerama makes is rectangular, which means your TV
screen is actually more like 1024x1200, you just can't see the bottom
36% of it.  It may be deeper than that, since you might be winding up
with something like xrandr rather than plain xinerama, or nvidia
[google...] TwinView I believe it is, which acts in its own way.

I'm not sure offhand who's doing the resizing in this case; you're not
asking ctwm to resize, you're telling the browser to do it.  But that
may happen by the browser in turn then making a request to the WM?
I've not tried tracing what goes on when you tell the browser to
full-screen itself.  ctwm has at least some knowledge of xinerama, but
it doesn't know anything about randr.


So, the best answer _I_ know would be to set it up as two separate [X]
Screen's, in which case each would know its native resolution and be
happy-ish.  But that does mean you couldn't move windows between them,
you'd have to start them up on the proper side.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  [email protected]
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