Re: wine's fullscreen code has no effect on metacity

["Neal Gompa" <ngompa13 gmail com>]

This is forwarded because I forgot to CC it... Sorry

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From: Neal Gompa <ngompa13 gmail com
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Date: Jul 5, 2006 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: wine's fullscreen code has no effect on metacity
To: Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+d41d gmail com>

I do not know if this helps, but on some games, Wine correctly activates fullscreen mode in metacity, but in others, it just resizes the screen and gets stuck that way... For example, Sim City 3000. Ubuntu Breezy and Fedora Core 5 cannot seem to properly go into fullscreen mode. But when running Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? metacity properly activates fullscreen mode with it. Same thing with ClueFinders, etc.

On 7/4/06, Vincent Povirk < madewokherd+d41d gmail com> wrote:

I've enabled that key combination, and I can now make gedit fullscreen
with alt+f11 so I think that's working properly (this is nifty; wonder
how I missed it..).

Pressing alt+f11 when windows firefox thinks it's in fullscreen mode
has no effect. xprop shows no _NET_WM_STATE.

However, it does work (sort of) if I press it when firefox is not in
fullscreen mode, except that I can see part of the bottom panel (but
can't interact with it; I assume it's really firefox's window there
but firefox hasn't drawn anything). xprop does show
_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN when I do that.

I'm not aware of anything different about how wine sets fullscreen
from other programs that I know work with metacity (I've compared the
source code and as far as I can tell it's identical, unless wine is
doing something else I'm not aware of).

> Yeah, that looks really odd.  That alone almost certainly means
> there's either a bug in KWin, metacity, or the EWMH.  Could you try
> something for me to see if we can narrow down the cause?  There's a
> special keybinding in Gnome, disabled by default, for manually setting
> windows to fullscreen mode.  Could you run
> gnome-keybinding-properties, find the "Toggle fullscreen mode" item in
> the list, click on it, press some special key combo (e.g. Alt-F11),
> then focus your window in question, and press that key combo?  That
> should make the window fullscreen and place it on top.  If you could
> check the xprop thing again at that point just to verify the
> _NET_WM_STATE, that would also help.
>
> After we know that, we can try seeing if you're setting the state in a
> weird way that KWin accepts but other WMs don't, or are setting it in
> a valid but slightly different way that Metacity should accept but
> doesn't, or if Metacity is doing something else weird.
>
> Cheers,
> Elijah
>


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Vincent Povirk