Hi,
ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
> ext Austin Che wrote:
>> Tapani Pälli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> - Is it possible to force such a window into fullscreen? I don't
>>>> care if it needs to be done manually. For example, is it
>>>> possible to have a program that takes whatever window is
>>>> currently on top/in focus and makes it fullscreen?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, by giving hints to window manager. This can be achieved by setting
>>> _NET_WM_STATE to _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN.
>>>
>> Thanks! I found it easier to use gdk_window_foreign_new and then
>> gdk_window_fullscreen. I've now got a semi-working hack using my
>> powerlaunch program to force any window into fullscreen by
>> pressing power,fullscreen.
>>
>> For example, I can now run NX in fullscreen and get a full KDE
>> desktop on the N800:
>> http://austinche.name/maemo/nx-fullscreen.png
>>
>> The one remaining issue I have is how to reliably get the ID of
>> the top window or focused window. I'm using XQueryPointer to get
>> the window under the pointer but it appears to sometimes give
>> windows that no longer exist (cache?) and thereby giving BadWindow
>> errors.
>
> This sounds dirty. You could read root window property
> _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING instead to get list of window id's (the last
> one is the topmost one).
And (of course) when dealing with windows from the other processes,
any actions on those windows should be protected by trapping the
X errors in case the window went away in the meanwhile.
(and one must not remember to do untrapping, otherwise there can
be strange problems later on.)
- Eero
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