Re: FVWM: firefox disapera on full screen.

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:22:18 -0500

Jindrich Makovicka <makovick_at_kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz> writes:
> Bjoern Steinbrink wrote:
> > On 2005.02.07 09:23:40 +0530, Manu J wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>i'm running 2.5.11 and on pressing F11 firefox disappers from the screen
> >>and the window list.I read through the archives.This was reported in the past.
> >>Has his been fixed in 2.5.12?
...
> Firefox (and GTK2 Mozilla suite) binary from mozilla.org uses some
> hackish way of setting fullscreen, instead of using EWMH fullscreen hint
> properly. This is because Firefox is compiled for older versions of GTK,
> which didn't contain gtk_window_fullscreen(). If you build your own from
> source tarball with recent GTK, fullscreen will work. Also, at least
> Debian Firefox binary works for me, and probably packages for other
> distributions will too. I am not sure if it's really a FVWM bug, the
> whole fullscreen issue in X is _very_ fishy.

Works flawlessly here using X, firefox from Mandrake 10.1
with latest Fvwm.

Well, actually, the menubar disappears, but I guess that's
on purpose.

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Received on Mon Feb 07 2005 - 08:24:27 GMT

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