Re: [Notion-general] xinerama vs dock

[Philipp H. <ph...@ph...>]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 08:51:56PM +0100, eb...@dr... wrote:
> > > One other issue: mplayer full screen now takes one full monitor, not
> > > split over two like without xinerama. However, geeqie fullscreen
> > > doesn't work. It did the same without xinerama like mplayer, but now
> > > it doesn't show its fullscreen window. I think geeqie full screen
> > > works like this: usually, the picture is on the right hand side. When
> > > you press f, a separate screenfilling window is added with the
> > > picture, but the original menu window stays (without the picture) --
> > > you can alt-tab out of full screen to it. However, I only get the
> > > menu window, not the fullscreen picture one.
> > 
> > I think that it depends on application to which 'window' (global root
> > or monitor root) it attaches its fullscreen mode. If you press META +
> > "Return", then WGroup.set_fullscreen() is launched. This function
> > either leaves fullscreen from the windowmanager point of view or it
> > enters the fullscreen mode back. This function always attaches window
> > to a monitor root. Maybe we can include similar function in
> > mod_xinerama, that always attaches a window to global root, so users
> > can choose to which root the fullscreen will be attached, as both ways
> > make sense.
> 
> I tried out META+Return, as you suggest.
> The first time I press that, I get another tabbed window containing the 
> picture (which should be full-screen).
> The second time I press that, I get the full-screen window in full-screen, 
> yay :)
> The third time is like the first and so on.
> What can I do to make this happen automatically for geeqie without having to 
> press META+Return twice?

I haven't tried geeqie, but this sounds exactly like the behavior Flash 
fullscreen shows when mod_xinerama is enabled. This should be fixed by the 
patch I've sent to notion-devel yesterday. I've attached it again for your 
convenience. Could you test if that fixes geeqie for you?

Regards,
Philipp