Re: "full screen" windows

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Philipp Lohmann <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM> writes:
> Actually your idea of adding a presentation window type might be better 
> in the long run. Because even if you have a fullscreen (lets say 
> presentation ) window you still may want to show dialogues while running 
> the presentation. If your presentation window is override redirect then 
> this is not possible with later window managers. On the other hand one 
> could simply say that dialogues that are transient for an override 
> redirect window would be on top of it. I actually tried this but it led 
> to the full screen window lowered beneath everything else; i don't think 
> there is a definition what should happen if a window is transient for an 
> override redirect window, so this probably needs to be defined.
> 

True, a WM could potentially handle the full-screen window more
nicely than override redirect allows.

Are there use-cases other than a presentation program or say a
full-screen print preview? Should we then call this semantic type
PRESENTATION?

I bet this is useful for e.g. games as well, so maybe simply
FULLSCREEN is the name of the hint.

Havoc