AP - full screen mode

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Tue Apr 9 13:51:40 UTC 2013


On 09.04.2013 15:50, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2013 15:30:56 Bogdan Cristea wrote:
>> For full screen mode currently I use
>>
>> QRect rect(0, 0, QApplication::desktop()->width(), QApplication::desktop()-
>>
>>> height());
>>
>> setGeometry(rect);
> this is not a way to set a window to fullscreen. How should the window manager
> know that this is fullscreen? It sees such a geometry and says: wow that's
> wrong, it would overlap with the panel. That's obviously not what the
> application wants and so I give it the area without the panel.
>
> If you want to set a window to fullscreen use the proper EWMH hint. I'm not
> sure whether Qt provides a hint for it, but KWindowSystem does.

Would KWin Active allow full screen with the correct hint at the moment?



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