Re: how could the mighty emacs lack --fullscreen ?

[Jan D.]

Kevin Ryde wrote:

> eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
>
> > On 17 Dec 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > $ xli -fullscreen photo.jpg
> > > whilst the mighty emacs is incapable?
> > If you can describe how to do that with all, or at least some, of the 
> > toolkits and window managers supported by Emacs, someone here could write 
> > the code to implement that.  For now, the Windows version can do that, 
> > but the others cannot.
>
> I guess the idea of maximized versus normal (when that idea exists) is
> private to the window manager, but maybe it'd be possible to have
> "--fullscreen" understood as just an initial size and position, not
> unlike --geometry but with a calculated size.


Yes, this is what xli does.  It creates a window with the size of the 
screen and does XSetNormalHints with both Psize and Usize set, and 
minsize set to maxsize.

It makes the window cover the screen, but it is no maximized in the 
window manager sense, i.e. if there is a maximize button that the window 
manager puts on the window it is not in the maximize state. maybe that 
doesn't matter.

        Jan D.