Running regular X11 apps

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From what I gathered from my experiments, I think it makes sense for
>> us to go with Metacity + maximus. That would require no code changes
>> in metacity and minor changes in sugar. If we want to support activity
>> icons though, we would probably require some more code changes in
>> sugar.
>
> Something that I wonder about the maximus approach... If you maximize
> the window when it's already mapped, won't you get a visible redraw?
>
> The advantage of the maximus approach to me is that you get
> applications like firefox to run fullscreen without code changes.

for firefox, wouldn't running it in kiosk mode on it's own desktop work 
without code changes and without having to do the backdoor trickery that 
has been done up till now?

David Lang

> Though stuff like gimp or the gnome calculator (try to maximize it on
> your desktop) will break.
>
> Marco
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