Re: fullscreen and gnome

[Jan Djärv]

Patrick Drechsler skrev:
> Leo wrote:
> > * Patrick Drechsler (2006-12-14 01:57 +0100) said:
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > This means that Emacs covers the window manager panels at the top
> > > and bottom ...
> >
> > That's what it means by fullscreen. Check out the fullscreen mode in
> > evince. You will see the same.
>
> Emacs has never done that in the past. Is this the expected behaviour?

Well, the -fs has not been present in any released Emacs so far.  That said, 
the extended window manager hints thing was added fairly recently, because 
that is what other people expect, i.e. like the mentioned evince.

> In case this is the intended behaviour: Which option do I pass to the 
> emacs command to have a fullscreen emacs which does _not_ cover the 
> window manager panels (ie gnome)? I would like to prevent using a direct 
> "--geometry" option because I use my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file in 
> different environments.
>
> Emacs is an editor. It should not have priority over the window manager 
> used. IMHO.

It does not, this is all the window manager doing stuff, in fact Emacs just 
tells the window manager, "make me fullscreen" and then the window manager 
does what it like.

> On a side note: I think that evince's default setting are also configured wrong 
> (at least when using Ubuntu 6.06). IMHO.

Evince uses the same mechanism as Emacs, i.e. it is the window manager again 
that does it all.

        Jan D.