On Friday 25 of March 2005 20:56, Alexander Strasser wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with the way EWMH fullsreen is defined in > > _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN indicates that the window should fill the entire > screen and have no window decorations. For example, a presentation > program would use this hint. > > I think to make this really useful the definition should be extended > to force the WM to restore the original window position after fs switch > as this would be the expected behaviour by most users and it is often tried > to achieve by application programmers with XMoveResizing'ing the toplevel > window to the previous position.
The various implementations for fullscreen mode in applications do even much worse things that just this. > Which is imho bad and needless when having > an program for managing toplevel windows (aka the Window Manager). > > Anyway it would be much better if this could be handled by the WM and > would be defined to do so in the specs. > > I know that some WMs already implement it the way described above, but > I think it would be better if it is explicitly stated in the specs. Actually I'd expect every same WM to do it that way. Is there some that doesn't? > > Patch suggestion attached. Fine with me. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
