I can say that with Gnome 2.16.1, Acroread full-screen mode now works as well as "feh -f", another program that previously didn't. Xdvi works in full-screen mode as well as OO Impress. I fail to find a program that doesn't, so things seem to have improved a lot. :-)
-- Problems with full-screen mode of Acrobat Reader, Xdvi, gnome-terminal https://launchpad.net/bugs/44093 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs