Re: Full-Screen-Application possible with GTK

[learfox furry ao net]

That sounds a bit like Maximize rather than Full screen?

I think what the original question was that is anyone know a GDK or XExt
call to switch the X server to go full screen with a particular toplevel
Window ID? (That's how I interprited the question).


> actually, i was confused by the message.
>
> if you want a gtk app without X, check out gtkfb (from gtk.org)
> http://people.redhat.com/sopwith/gtkfb/
> and the ggi project.
>
> else if you want to write an X proggy that has no window manager bars or
> borders, check out xmms (xmms.org).
>
> it also sounds like you want to make a gtk app take up the whole screen
> as in the windows standard mdi/mdl or whatever the acronym is :P blender
> does this, but it's gui is written in glut and is closed source anyway.
> maybe you could query the root window size and set your main window to
> that size. any borders would be off the screen if the window was
> centered properly.
>
> werd
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: learfox furry ao net
> Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:32 pm
> Subject: Re: Full-Screen-Application possible with GTK 
>
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to write a fullscreen application with GTK ?
> > > >
> > > > I would like to write a MP3-Player-application so that you 
> > don't see any
> > > > title-bars etc. just the contents of the window. In Windows, 
> > there is no
> > > > problem, but is it also possible with linux ?
> > >
> > > Yes! NO problem.
> > >
> > > You don't even need Gtk... In Xt you can do something like.
> > >
> > >
> > > screen = DefaultScreen(display);
> > >         
> > > display_width = DisplayWidth(display, screen);
> > > display_height = DisplayHeight(display, screen);
> > >         
> > > /* create window */
> > > win = XCreateSimpleWindow( display, RootWindow(display, screen),
> > >      x, y, display_width, display_height, border_width,
> > >      BlackPixel(display, screen),
> > >      WhitePixel(display, screen));
> >
> > I think he is asking if a window can be made 'full screen' such 
> > that the
> > window is not operating in a GUI enviroment with other windows.
> > Not making a GUI window the size of the root window.
> >
> >
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