Re: [E-devel] Keyboard sequence to escape Terminology from Enlightenment top bar toggled Fullscreen option

[email protected] Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:12:55 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.enlightenment.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2024-02-08 00:49, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:51:31 -0800 [email protected] said:
> 
>> Hello-
>> Probably this is trivial but...
>> 
>> Maximized the Terminology 1.12.1 screen dimensions by selecting the
>> upward arrow on its window bar. There was another application at the 
>> top
>> of the same screen and Terminology upper position was offset downwards
>> by the approximate dimension of the other application window top bar.
>> Terminology/Enlightenment did not respect/calculate screen dimension
>> edge at bottom and ended up with 'hanging' extreme off view of the
>> screen.
> 
> I can't picture hat you mean from the above... so I'm not sure what to 
> say
> there.
Frequently, by experience, resizing up and down Terminology when there 
is at least another application in the background (at the top), will 
cause Terminology to extend beyond the bottom of the screen.

> 
>> I tried to resize Terminology from the Enlightenment 0.25.4 bar at the
>> top -- which disappears unless I press my pointer towards the top.
>> Resizing option was not available; thus, I selected Fullscreen option
>> which took control of the current screen. Now I cannot bring up the
>> Enlightenment bar again to exit Fullscreen option. Indeed, I could 
>> close
>> the Terminology window tabs I have open but I am working on different
>> tabs and I do not want to lose track of what I have going on.
>> 
>> Is there a way to exit Enlightenment/Terminology Fullscreen without
>> closing Terminology app itself? Alternatively, is there a way to bring
>> up the Enlightenment bar using keyboard sequence(s)?
> 
> several things that you probably need to know here.
'man enlightenment' perhaps? ;-)
< http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-65c5ec63301cb8.47354629.jpg >

> 
> 1. all windows can be moved at all times with alt+left mouse 
> (click+drag)
> anywhere on a window at any time... you don't have to find the 
> titlebar.
> 2. all windows can be resized at all times with alt+middle mouse (click 
> + drag)
> anywhere on a window at any time... you don't have to find the titlebar 
> or
> bottom "resize bar/handle"
> 3. all windows can have the enlightenment window menu shown at all 
> times with
> alt+right mouse click anywhere on a window at any time.
> 4. the default keybinding for toggling fullscreen mode is ctrl+alt+f - 
> for any
> window
This is likely what I was missing!

> 5. fullscreen windows cannot be moved or resized until you 
> un-fullscreen them
Indeed, it was frustrating!

> 6. if you have edge bindings (that flip desktops when you put your 
> mouse at the
> edge of a screen for example) then the very edges of your screen are 
> dedicated
> to these actions/bindings and not for things like resizing a window
> 7. you might be mixing terms here - the self is that bar with the 
> pager, ibar
> launcher, battery gadget, clock etc. etc. in it - it can be set it 
> auto-hide
> (and thus auto-show) when mouse hovers. there isnt some auto-hide 
> feature for
> titlebars so do you mean the shelf?

Indeed, I was 'mixing terms', I meant the 'self...er, shelf'. Thanks!
> 
>> Thanks.

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