Would you mind sharing your solution? Out of curiosity, I tried using the 'Window Rules' plugin in Compiz to force Hulu and MythTV to a particular window size (that's not the size of the actual display), but both programs seemed to start up at the forced window size, then resize themselves to the real display size after a few seconds. So now I'm curious to know if there actually is any way to manually change the size of a "full-screen" window...
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Randolph Baden wrote: > Thanks for the help. Thanks to the replies on this, I've figured out > a way to do it. > > > Compiz actually has nothing to do with the configuration of your video card > > / monitor. That is handled by the XRandR extension in Xorg (or Xinerama if > > you're using an old version of XFree86 or Xorg). > > I understand what compiz is (and what it isn't). My intention was not > to change the monitor's resolution, but to change how a window was > displayed in the existing resolution. I realize that's probably not > the best way to solve the problem, but if it were possible then I'd > prefer it from having to screw with the display settings (since my > setup has caused me a lot of headache in that regard). > > > I use a pretty esoteric window manager, so I don't know what the standard > > configuration tools in Ubuntu look like, but I'm guessing Gnome probably > > provides a nice GUI to manipulate your monitor configuration, hiding the > > fact that it is actually manipulating XRandR under the hood. However, I'm > > also guessing it mimics the behavior of the M$ Windows Display Control > > Panel, and only gives you access to the most basic features of XRandR > > (stretch desktop onto display, or mirror display but requiring both > > monitors to run at the same resolution), so you will probably need to > > manually configure XRandR to do what you want. > > I've never actually gotten the Ubuntu one to work right, and always > had to fall back on Nvidia's nvidia-settings. I think you might be > able to change the XRandR options through that, but as I mentioned I > try to avoid messing with it ever since I got my setup to work. :p > > Thanks again > -Randy >
