borderless window?

[Erik Harrison]

On 5/15/05, Kristoffer <kfs1 at online.no> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:55:55 +0200, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Then Alt+F11 (toggle fullscreen)  should do the trick...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:29 +0200, Kristoffer wrote:
> >> On Sat, 14 May 2005 16:06:29 +0200, Stefan Stuhr
> >> <xfceuserslist at sstuhr.dk>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > lør, 14 05 2005 kl. 00:41 +0200, skrev Kristoffer:
> >> >> Hi, i need the left border "borderless" because of opera's border
> >> which
> >> >> one opens by clicking to the left of the screen. I managed to
> >> minimize
> >> >> my
> >> >> border by editing the theme but i still have about a millimeter
> >> which it
> >> >> seems i can't get rid of.
> >> >>
> >> >> i CAN open it now but i have to move the mouse cursor 1 pixel to the
> >> >> left-right of the screen to open it which is kinda annoying...
> >> >>
> >> >> it works in GNOMW btw.
> >> >
> >> > I think what you really want is maximized windows without left, right
> >> > and bottom borders. Like in Gnome.
> >> >
> >> > Stefan
> >> >
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> >> uhh, yeah, but i really only *NEED* without left border to make opera
> >> more
> >> easier usable..
> >>
> >
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> not really.. i DO need the stuff that's being left out when i [F11] opera
> and changing opera to include all that in full-screen is really a "hack"
> instead of fixing the problem that got it that way...
> 
> if you really, absolutely, have to see for yourself i sugges you download
> opera, which is an excellent browser, and see for yourself :)

Opera won't run on this machine. No Qt. 

However, here is the deal, yo. Removing window borders when maximizing
and app has been discussed to death, and won't likely be done. See the
list archives for details. This is why it "works" in Gnome and not in
Xfwm4.

Removing just one border of a theme is not possible, I believe. You
could make a feature request, but it seems unlikely.

A possible solution is to run a WM with the behaviour you like. You
can run Metacity, which works, as you note, or if the dependencies are
too much, blackbox at least also has this behaviour. Xfce is designed
to be very modular, and allow this kind of mix and match,

Olivier, since this is an oft requested feature, just off the top of
my head, does it add signifigant complexity to make the "Window Border
disappear on maximize" a per theme feature? That may be an awful idea,
it  just came to me.


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