Re: "full screen" windows

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bj|rn Englund <d4bjorn dtek chalmers se> writes:
> If an application/user wants to have a full screen window, what
> window_type / hints should it use?
> 
> Full screen window == window covering the whole screen, doesn't have
> any decorations and is on top (above any panel/docks/pinnable menu or
> at least configurable to be so in the window manager).
> 
> In window managers using the motif properties one can set decorations
> to none and set the position to 0,0 and size to screen size, but
> since there isn't any support for "purely visual descriptions"
> in the wm-spec I think there is a bit of a problem.
> 
> None of the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE seems to be the right one to use (?)
> 
> Or would it be acceptable to set the window_type to dock?
> And this might not mean that there are no decorations.
> 
> What is the best/most portable way of doing this?
> Is it possible with the current wm-spec.
> 

I would still use the Motif hints to set decorations to none, and set
size to screen size.  To keep the window on top is you're right
probably not possible at the moment.

Should we add a PRESENTATION or SCREENSAVER window type?

Havoc