Re: autofullscreen maximized windows with no decorations

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:26, Davyd Madeley<davyd madeley id au> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> You can achieve what you're trying to achieve using a Mutter plugin.
>
> (If you're running Mutter rather than Metacity).

Doing that in a plugin would be great, but it's currently very
important for us that Sugar runs well on older hardware, so cannot
depend on Mutter.

Regards,

Tomeu

> --d
>
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:32 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we wish to use Metacity as the default window manager in Sugar and
>> have found a problem that is not clear how to solve.
>>
>> The lines in the link below will fullscreen all windows that have no
>> decorations and are maximized:
>>
>> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/metacity/tree/src/core/constraints.c#n424
>>
>> In Sugar's case, most windows will be maximized and won't have
>> decorations, but we don't want them to be put automatically in
>> fullscreen mode because in fullscreen mode Sugar activities display a
>> different UI (the toolbar on the top is hidden and the canvas fills
>> the whole screen).
>>
>> Also, we have a panel/dock that slides into the screen and should also
>> appear over maximized windows.
>>
>> I will appreciate any feedback about what can we do here and, as a
>> proof of concept, I'm attaching a patch that adds a CLI switch for
>> disabling automatic fullscreening.
>>
>> I can also open a ticket if you think this can be considered as a
>> valid bug or feature request.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
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