Re: fullcreen = fullboth yields undesirable behavior

[Jan Djärv]

Fullscreen on Gnome is done as specified by the extended window manager hints. 
 Thst is, Emacs just tells the window manager, "make me 
fullscreen/height/width", and the windowmanager does what it sees fit.

However, you can request fullscreen or fullwidth+height.  These may be 
interpreted differently by the window manager, even if the spec says it should 
not.

Tom Tromey skrev:
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
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>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> I recently wrote an elisp program which resized a frame using the size
> parameter 'fullscreen' with a value of 'fullboth'.
>
> This resized the frame to fill the entire screen.  The window manager
> frame was not visible, and the Gnome panel was obscured.
>
> Reading the docs, I can see how this is probably the planned behavior.
> However, I was expecting it to act more like maximizing the window
> using the window manager (where the window manager frame and the panel
> would remain visible).  I couldn't think of a situation where I would
> want the current behavior.
>
> Gtk provides an API, gtk_window_maximize, which I think Emacs should
> use and which I think should provide my desired behavior.  If changing
> 'fullboth' is undesirable, perhaps a new value for 'fullscreen' could
> be added.

gtk_window_maximize does what Emacs already does.  It can't be used when Emacs 
is not compiled with Gtk+, so there is no point in doing so.

        Jan D.