Re: full screen app overlaying split screen apps?

Have you tried :unmanage?  It might suite your purposes...


Rob

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unmanage [name]
Add name to the list of unmanaged windows.  Thus, windows of this name will
not be managed but  allowed to choose their position themselves.
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:10:50PM -0800, Chris McCraw wrote:
> hey folks,
> 
> longtime user, first time caller.  thanks for the great work--i've used
> ratpoison for years and have found it perfect for my mouseless needs.
> 
> i've recently started living in a splitscreen world with my IM client in
> a small slit at the bottom of the screen.  unfortunately it takes some
> doing to get it to come up right (text based client, inside screen, in
> an xterm), and it doesn't resize well (it's curses and doesn't take
> SIGWINCH quite right, at least not under screen, which is a requirement).
> so i'd like to leave that window alone and never resize it.
> 
> the challenge comes in running VirtualBox, which reallllly wants to be
> full screen.  ratpoison handles it well, but VirtualBox sometimes fails
> to realize the true window size it is in (the top 4/5 of the screen) and
> draws off the bottom of the viewpane as though it were fullscreen, which
> is fairly inconvenient.
> 
> so, my question is, is there a way to tell ratpoison to let an app to ignore
> the split and go fullscreen despite there being a window in the split
> that isn't going anywhere?
> 
> thanks for your advice!
> 
> 
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