[I previously posted a very similar message to the posting address
found on list archives c...@cognac.epfl.ch though I don't know
whether or how that is connected to this list.
That message may have hit a non-member block.
If not apologies for duplication.]
Although I have been using and recommending ctwm for many years I
have only recently discovered the ctwm email archive:
http://tigerdyr.wheel.dk/ctwm-archive/
Our departmental linux system now has linux flash version 10
installed, which supports switching to full screen, not properly
supported in previous versions of flash.
I find that if I am running gnome on my desk top PC running CentOS
release 5.2 (Final) the combination of firefox 3 (currently 3.0.4)
and Flash 10 allows full screen versions of flash slideshows on the
slideshare web to site work as expected, including mine:
http://www.slideshare.net/asloman/slideshows
However, I find gnome unacceptable as a working environment and for
many years have been using ctwm as my window manager (currently
version 3.8a from here http://ctwm.free.lp.se/)
Although the ctwm defaults are very poor (which may account for its
very limited use), it is highly tailorable, which overcomes all the
poor defaults, at least for me.
The only way ctwm now lets me down is not working with the 'full
screen' option on flash, and I wonder whether anyone on this list
knows how to fix that.
Everything else does exactly what I want (including supporting rapid
switching between ten different virtual desktops, and also sensibly
'wrapping' virtual desktops; and also allowing me to alter behaviour
by editing ~/.ctwmrc instead of messing around with mouse and
menus).
I wonder if anyone might know what sort of thing needs to be changed
in a window manager like ctwm to support a full-screen flash popup.
I've confirmed that it's not firefox that is blocking this, because
as mentioned above, if I switch from ctwm to gnome the switch to
full screen works, e.g. on slideshare presentations.
I am not a C programmer, but if someone can give me pointers I may
be able to implement the required changes and test them, if the
changes required are not too complex.
Thanks.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
