Exclusive Fullscreen Mode

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Mon Sep 6 09:06:20 PDT 2010


Roland Plüss wrote:
> I tried searching on the Internet for informations on how to take over 
> the screen using Xlib. I think here about fullscreen exclusive access 
> like for example SDLMAME does it. I stumbled so far though only on one 
> single mentioning of an Xlib call which should allow switching a 
> window into a FullscreenExclusiveMode. I could though find nothing 
> about such a call nor this FullscreenExclusiveMode. Has anybody an 
> idea what this FullscreenExclusiveMode could be or in general how one 
> can make a window take over the entire screen?

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I use wmctrl to set the 
window size and then to nail it on top.

It's a window manager function to manage the size and location of windows.

--Yan


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