Re: maximizing

>>> Flash in particular doesn't think it should be in FS mode if it doesn't have the focus.
>>>       
>
> It is. Most importantly, there's a race condition: if the flash 
> window doesn't get the focus fast enough, when it goes into FS 
> mode, it will close. But this "trying to outsmart the WM" also
> means you can't open the scratchpad while flash is FS, can't
> switch back to another WS while flash is FS, or the window will
> un-FS.
>   
So this is generally a flash problem with focus, very interesting, 
thanks for the insight.
Obviously letting anything actually have focus control is uncool so 
that's a problem.