[Xquartz-dev] Fullscreen in rootless mode

[Jeremy Huddleston]

I agree.  This is something I very much want to see, and it's slowly  
inching its way up the priority list as other bugs get fixed.  This is  
going to be a bit of a headache because in X11-land, this is handled  
by the window manager... but the code that needs to handle the  
"fullscreen toggle" in OSX-land is the Xquartz server, so we need to  
do some stuff probably with AppleWM to get this to work.


On Jul 20, 2008, at 07:10, Bob wrote:

> I'm not sure if this has been discussed before on this list but I  
> don't
> remember seeing it.
>
> It would be really nice to have true fullscreen in rootless mode.  
> This is
> different than rooted fullscreen support (which would also be great)  
> and so
> could be implemented faster. What I mean is for a window to be able  
> to cover
> the entire screen (including mac menu bar and dock) in rootless  
> mode. For
> example, eye of gnome (eog) has a fullscreen mode that in linux  
> makes it
> cover the entire screen including the gnome panels (i.e., menus,  
> window
> switcher, etc). When eog fullscreen is used on mac in rootless mode it
> covers most of the screen but not the menu bar. I'm not sitting at my
> leopard machine so I cannot remember what it does with the dock when  
> not
> hidden, but I know if the dock is hidden then it correctly uses all  
> the
> space to the bottom of the window.
>
> The behavior of covering the menu bar and dock is exactly what many  
> Mac OS X
> applications do when in "fullscreen" mode. For example iPhoto, Dvd  
> Player,
> and iMovie to name a few. Why shouldn't X11 applications have the same
> behavior. Is X11 a 2nd class citizen?
>
> I realize that this request is different than what people usually  
> mean but
> X11 fullscreen (i.e., X11 rooted mode), but it would be great to  
> have both
> and their implementation would likely be different.  I've added this  
> request
> to the fullscreen bug report on the wiki but thought I would mention  
> it here
> as well to see what everyone thought.
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