Re: fullscreen and gnome

[Patrick Drechsler]

Jan Djärv wrote:
> James Cloos skrev:
> > > > > > > "Patrick" == Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden> writes:
> > Patrick> Thank you Jan, your example code works fine. But as mentioned
> > Patrick> in my original post I was looking for a solution which is
> > Patrick> independent of the window manager/OS in use. I guess I'll
> > Patrick> just stick with the --geometry parameter.
> >
> > The technique Jan used for maximizing is the same as the technique
> > that the -fs flag uses to do full screen.  Both just set the window
> > manager hints for the specified display options.
> >
> > The _NET_WM_STATE hints are standardized.  All modern window managers
> > should use them.
> >
> > As such, they should be supported by everthing that you use.
> >
> > You can run this on each platform to confirm:
> >
> > :; xlsatoms |egrep _NET_WM
> >
> > And you can use xprop to see the settings for any given window.  As an
> > example, I get this for the emacs frame I'm writing this in:
[...]
> > I'd expect that you will find that Jan's solution will Just Work.
>
> Well, there are always the old WM:s that don't support _NET_*.

Thanks Jan and James (and sorry for the late reply) for your feedback. 
The code you posted actually works fine. Opposed to the subject I was 
subliminally hoping for a solution which would also work using Windows. 
I can see that this is not accomplished that easily. But one mouse click 
to maximize isn't that difficult either ;-)

Thanks again for your help,

Patrick