Re: galeon fullscreen in garnome

[Matt Blaha <thecombatwombat worldwidewombat com>]

Just curious, what version of mplayer are you guys running?

I'm running 0.90-rc2 and fullscreen works fine.
(garnome-0.20/gnome-panel-2.1.90.1 course)

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:56, Shaun ONeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:30, Gerhard H. Melseth wrote:
> > how do I get fullscreen in galeon?
> > and in mplayer for that matter too..
> > 
> > My problem is that when I do the fullscreen in galeon, it be
> > fullscreen.. sort of.
> > And in mplayer-fullscreen it shows the panel.
> > 
> > Mvh
> > Gerhard
> 
> Galeon _should_ go fullscreen using F11 .. if this is what you're
> already using, could you give more detail to "sort of" please?
> 
> mplayer's fullscreen also shows the panels here, if I ask mplayer to go
> fullscreen (ie, hit the F key). My solution is to use metacity's
> fullscreen shortcut, which is alt+F11 on mine .. if this isn't the
> default, it can be found in Desktop Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts
> (as Window Management/Toggle fullscreen mode).
> 
> Failing that, an odd trick I found with earlier versions of metacity was
> to ask mplayer to go fullscreen (ie, hit the F key), then switch to
> another workspace, and back again. When going fullscreen, the panels
> were on-top, but when returning to the workspace, they weren't. Why this
> worked, or if it's reproducable, I have no idea - but it made a good
> short-term fix.
> 
> Hoping any of this will be of use,
>   Shaun.