Re: gqview 1.5.4/1.5.5 and fullscreen mode

"Dariusz J. Garbowski" wrote:
> 
> Recently I built GQview 1.5.4 and noticed that something has changed
> since 1.4.x in the way fullscreen is implemented.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 3 with Gnome and IceWM 1.2.18 as wm.
> 
> When I switch to fullscreen mode I have few things still left on top of
> the image: gkrellm window, icewm panel and gnome panel.
> 
> There is a nice feature of IceWM that you can click right mouse button
> on "GQview full screen" in window list or on the panel and set layer for
> the window. When I choose "on top" gkrellm is goes behind GQview. To
> make Gnome panel go below I have to choose "dock" layer. To make IceWM
> panel do the same the layer has to be "above dock".

This is probably the only issue left for full screen in 1.5.x, the window
layering. Right now GQview requests no specific layer, it is a standard window.

There is no real _usable_ layer designed specifically for full screen, I may
make the full screen request to be above other windows as per NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
discussed in the freedesktop.org Extended Window Manager Specs outlined here:

  http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html

But that is as far you can reasonably go, requesting the full screen window be
NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN seems like it would be the way to go, but it simply
ruins the ability to select the location of the window in a multi-head setup
because it also takes away the application's ability to place or size the
window. Also, in testing a few window managers the behavior for
NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN in a multi-head setup is not consistent and the spec
itself does not really address the issue.

In the stacking order paragraph, the spec mentions that TYPE_DOCK and
STATE_ABOVE have the same priority, apparently neither is guaranteed to be
higher. So if I add a STATE_ABOVE request the dock may still be visible.


> This is not the case with GQview 1.4.x. I have seen "1.5.3 xinerama
> problem" thread and see that you are still working on fullscreen feature.

You may also see this problem with 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 - they were released
primarily to update the full screen code to something similar to what is in
1.5.x but without the ability to select the window location.

> 
> Since I'm also running xinerama with two monitors (1: 1280x1024, 2:
> 1600x1200, Matrox G550) I can report that fullscreen window opens on
> expected monitor for me, i.e. the one where GQview's main window is
> open. Personally I do not quite see a need for fullscreen spanning over
> two monitors, especially that they run in different resolution in my setup.

In 1.5.x you can configure the full screen window to be a specific monitor, the
current monitor, or all monitors. The default is current monitor, and can be
changed in advanced options.


Greetings,
John


-- 
John Ellis <[email protected]>

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