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

["Vincent Povirk" <madewokherd+d41d gmail com>]

running metacity:

meh wicket:~$ xprop | grep _NET_WM_STATE
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) =

running kwin:

meh wicket:~$ xprop | grep _NET_WM_STATE
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN


Not that I understood how this was supposed to work to begin with, but
this really doesn't make any sense to me.

On 7/4/06, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/2/06, Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+d41d gmail com> wrote:
> > Some patches were committed to wine recently to make it use
> > _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN for fullscreen apps. These patches appear to
> > work in kwin but not metacity (I was using firefox as a test). In
> > metacity, it appears wine recognizes that it needs to make a window
> > fullscreen and send the appropriate message, but nothing happens
> > (panels are still on top of firefox in fullscreen mode).
> >
> > I've mentioned this on wine's bug
> > (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3312), but I suspect it's
> > probably caused by some quirk in metacity that wine triggers by doing
> > some rather odd things itself. That's why I've CC'd the metacity-devel
> > list (to which I and probably anyone on any wine mailing lists are not
> > subscribed).
> >
> > So, uh, metacity people, under what circumstances would metacity be
> > likely to put a window that had sent the proper _NET_WM_STATE_ADD
> > message for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN behind panels?
>
> If you have properly changed the fullscreen state as it sounds, the
> only case in which metacity ignores this hint is when the window
> doesn't have focus and is on the same xinerama as the window that does
> have focus (this is to allow the user to alt-tab to another window and
> do something without having the window they alt-tab to just remain
> covered up).  So, if you can run
>    xprop | grep _NET_WM_STATE
> and click on the relevant window and it shows
> "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN" as one of the states and then focus that
> window and observe it to not be on top of all other windows (including
> panels), then it sounds like you've discovered a bug in Metacity.  If
> so, I would be interested to learn how to reproduce so that I can fix
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> Elijah


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Vincent Povirk