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Re: Fullscreen application with Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode


On 23/11/2016 17:24, David Chamberlain wrote:
I recently installed xinit and the PDF viewers Evince and Zathura. I'm
starting X via startxwin which puts it in multiwindow mode. Both of
the PDF viewers work fine, except when I press F11 to view a PDF
fullscreen, nothing changes.

Is this an inherent limitation of Cygwin/X, or a problem with my
config or these particular applications? Should it be possible to make
an X application fullscreen while running in multiwindow mode?

The multiwindow-mode window manager doesn't support or advertise support for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN, so this doesn't work at the moment.

So, technically I guess this an application/toolkit problem, as it should notice that lack of support and e.g. grey-out the fullscreen option in the menu.

But ideally this would be fixed by adding support for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN to the WM.

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Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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