AP - full screen mode

[Martin Graesslin]

On Tuesday 09 April 2013 15:51:40 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> 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?
yes of course, fullscreen is not a feature one can turn off in KWin.

Cheers
Martin