[Fixed] xpdf -fullscreen under xfce

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Tue Jan 3 11:16:34 CET 2006


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> 
>>xfwm4 implements some hooks to detect such older "legacy" applications 
>>that try to achieve fullscreen, but that doesn't work in all cases. 
>>Adding more hacks to the window manager is not the way to go.
> 
> 
> Actually, it can be easily improved. You can download a version that 
> works with xpdf here :
> 
> http://foo-projects.org/~olivier/preview/xfwm4-4.2.3.3-r19276.tar.bz2
> 
> 
>>I don't know what you mean by 
>>the first issue not being solved, the slider is managed by the 
>>application (xpdf in this case), not the environment. You'll have it in 
>>gnome too.
> 
> 
> In fact, it's even more evil than that... The slider and quit button are 
> always present, but xpdf request a size larger than the actual screen so 
> that they aren't seen by the user.
> 
> The snapshot mentionned above also takes this into account.

Ugh. I hope you didn't have to do something nasty to unbreak xpdf. They 
really ought to do it themselves.

-- b



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