Re: fullscreen vs alt+click/alt+drag

["P. George" <invest juun com>]

i'm not sure i understand your meaning.  can you clarify, please?

thanks.  ;)

- philip




On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Hongli Lai wrote:

> P. George wrote:
> > i'm porting a fullscreen, kiosk-like app from the mac to linux/x86.
> > everything's hunky-dory so far, except that there is a critical 
> > feature of the app which isn't working as it should:
> > i need the user to be able to alt+leftclick my app's interface (ie: 
> > the main, fullscreen window) to gain access to certain features, but 
> > when i do this on linux (in _almost_ every window manager), of course 
> > the window (even though it's fullscreen), is able to be moved around. 
> >  i realize this is standard fare for linux gui apps, but not for 
> > kiosk apps or games.
> > i tried looking through some source for a couple games, but i'm not 
> > seeing anything unusual that might take care of this problem, even 
> > though the games themselves definitely do not allow alt+dragging of 
> > the game window.
> > so, what's the trick?
>
> Maybe you can grab the screen while your app is in full screen mode?
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