Hello Noel,
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Please see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/296947 for a
bug report regarding Impress and Sun Presender Screen. The Slide Show
consumes all workspaces, rather than just the one in which Impress is
running. Fixing the Slide Show to sit properly on just its workspace is
very important to allow rapid switching between presentation and demo.
Other full-screen applications do this properly.
I have asked Philipp of the VCL team about this (due to some technical
problem he did not receive your posting.) Here is his answer:
<philipp>
Alas window managers do not properly support multiple screen
configurations with Xinerama at all. And to add insult to injury, they
do not properly support them in different ways. The proper way to get a
full screen window would be to set the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN state on
its window (see the EWMH spec at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#id2551694 ).
This however results on different window managers in different results:
on metacity for example you would get a window that has the size of the
monitor it is currently positioned on, on kwin you get a window that
extends over all monitors (at least in the version that was used during
implementing the fullscreen mode in OOo).
Since OOo strives to work on all window managers, this leaves us in the
undesirable position to find the hack that works on most, in this case a
window with a completely wrong type of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK which
will be a) undecorated and b) kept above all other windows (quite
essential for a presentation window).
If there were to be a standardized way of having a fullscreen window on
a single screen, I'd be happy to support it.
Kind regards, pl
</philipp>
The version of Impress I have installed on Ubuntu 8.10 is from the PPA (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/267376 for
information). The Presenter Screen was downloaded directly from the
OpenOffice site, to which I made a minor correction to the deployment
descriptor to allow installing on x86_64.
The above is the primary thing that I want to report and see fixed. But,
just so you are aware, I have seperately reported a defect that appears in
the Fedora 10 version (see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469572), although as you will
see from that report (a) the same thing works with the Ubuntu distribution,
and (b) a new defect has blocked the first, since their current release no
longer sees multiple monitors.
--- Noel
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