[openbox] Opening maximized

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Wed Aug 25 22:16:24 EDT 2004


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, ivanova wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:51:36 +0200 (CEST)
> Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, ivanova wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:26:40 +0200 (CEST)
>>> Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, ivanova wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:48:10 -0400
>>>>> Matthew Graybosch <mgraybosch at starbreaker.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23:07 Sun 22 Aug     , ivanova wrote:
>>>>>>> How do I start an application to be maximized? Can other windows
>>>>> properties>> like layer on top be specified?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest reading up on Devil's Pie.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks - It solved most of my problems, but I have a few left ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to start feh (image viewer) to be above all other windows and
>>>>> toolbars/docks. I used devilspie to start it with always on top, but how
>>> do>> I make it go above toolbars/docks? I also tried to set the wintype to
>>> 'DOCK'>> and'TOOLBAR' without success.
>>>>
>>>> You can't. I am assuming you want to maximize feh so you see the images
>>>> fullscreen, for this you want _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN, i don't know if
>>>> devilspie can set that for you?
>>>
>>> No, I do not want it to go fullscreen, just to go over the docks and
>>> toolbars ;)
>>
>> The netwm spec says docks go over everything. I personally don't like this
>> so i changed my local tree a bit.
>
> How do you change that? feh won't even go over the toolbars/docks in fullscreenmode.

Then it implements its own fullscreen which it shouldn't. cvs openbox has 
a togglefullscreen action which will set the proper fullscreen hint on any 
window. Make sure you bind it to a key and not to a titlebar button, since 
the titlebar goes away in fullscreen.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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