From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fullscreen and gnome Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4580F94A.4050704@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166093567 13468 80.91.229.10 (14 Dec 2006 10:52:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 11:52:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuoCe-0000pn-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:52:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuoCd-0007TA-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuoBz-0007Et-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:51:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuoBx-0007D6-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:51:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuoBx-0007Cz-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GuoBx-0003wF-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GuoBr-0002R6-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:51 +0100 Original-Received: from dslb-084-057-091-072.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.57.91.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:51 +0100 Original-Received: from patrick by dslb-084-057-091-072.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-057-091-072.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061117) In-Reply-To: <4580F94A.4050704@swipnet.se> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63714 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv wrote: >=20 >=20 > Patrick Drechsler skrev: >> Leo wrote: >>> * Patrick Drechsler (2006-12-14 01:57 +0100) said: >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>>> This means that Emacs covers the window manager panels at the top >>>> and bottom ... >>> >>> That's what it means by fullscreen. Check out the fullscreen mode in >>> evince. You will see the same. >> >> Emacs has never done that in the past. Is this the expected behaviour?= >=20 > Well, the -fs has not been present in any released Emacs so far. =20 I guess I have been using the CVS version for a while then ;-) > That=20 > said, the extended window manager hints thing was added fairly recently= ,=20 > because that is what other people expect, i.e. like the mentioned evinc= e. OK, then it's a feature. >> In case this is the intended behaviour: Which option do I pass to the = >> emacs command to have a fullscreen emacs which does _not_ cover the=20 >> window manager panels (ie gnome)? I would like to prevent using a=20 >> direct "--geometry" option because I use my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file in= =20 >> different environments. >> >> Emacs is an editor. It should not have priority over the window=20 >> manager used. IMHO. >=20 > It does not, this is all the window manager doing stuff, in fact Emacs = > just tells the window manager, "make me fullscreen" and then the window= =20 > manager does what it like. Fair enough. Is there a proposed way of accomplishing the=20 semi-fullscreen effect I am after? >> On a side note: I think that evince's default setting are also=20 >> configured wrong=20 > > (at least when using Ubuntu 6.06). IMHO. >=20 > Evince uses the same mechanism as Emacs, i.e. it is the window manager = > again that does it all. OK, obviously a matter of taste. Thanks for your feedback Jan. Patrick