On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was playing around with the possibility of replacing the current >>> Sugar WM - Matchbox with Metacity (this will, as I understand, enable >>> stock desktop applications run better within Sugar). >>> Certain things do break if we just drop in Metacity in place of >>> Matchbox, but it looks like with some changes in the code (Sugar code, >>> I would try to avoid changing Metacity code), we might actually get >>> something useful. >>> Marco had started a page on this topic sometime back - >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WindowManagement, and I have updated this >>> page with my findings. >> >> Yay! >> >>> Setting the window to be fullscreen (via set_fullscreen())does not seem to >>> work, since it stops the frame from popping up, and also an icon to exit >>> fullscreen appears at the top right corner. One possible solution to this >>> is to make the activity window undecorated (we do not need >>> maximise/minimize/resize buttons), and making their height/width equal to >>> the dimensions of the screen. >> >> This would need to be done by each activity or the window manager, or >> can be done by the shell? > > Maximize + undecorated might work. It has to be done by each activity. > The only alternative I can think about is to add an option to metacity > to make all toplevel windows undecorated and fullscreen. That would > not play nicely with stuff like the GIMP or even simple/small > applications like GNOME calculator. >
I tried to do that (maximize() and then set_decorated(False)). As soon as I set the window to undecorated, it seems to assume fullscreen properties (with the full screen icon popping up on the top right). Is there any convention which signifies maximized + undecorated = fullscreen ? Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
