[openbox] Opening maximized

ivanova flamingivanova at punkass.com
Thu Aug 26 02:08:59 EDT 2004


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:16:24 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks - I upgraded to cvs and the fullscreen works fine ;)




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