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pling

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 3

Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

Hi! I'm new here, I just started using XFCE a few days ago when I saw an Acer One Netbook and thought "I could carry emacs with me - everywhere!" (I use Org Mode for almost everything.) So far I'm really impressed by the speed demon quality of XFCE - it makes the Book feel very fast.

I'd like to have emacs open when I start the machine, in fullscreen i.e. borderless mode - exactly what I get when I use Alt-F11. Is there some XFCE config file I could tweak to get the fullscreen part?

(Keywords added for search: full screen, no borders.)

FrancescoA

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Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

Re: Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

I "fear", that is not possible. From what I read, you cannot store or better xfce cannot remember  windows postions and sizes.

pling

Member

Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 3

Re: Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

I "fear", that is not possible. From what I read, you cannot store or better xfce cannot remember  windows postions and sizes.

That's a pity. I wonder if Devil Pie will work with XFCE/Linpus? Thanks anyway!

FrancescoA

Member

Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

Re: Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

I "fear", that is not possible. From what I read, you cannot store or better xfce cannot remember  windows postions and sizes.

That's a pity. I wonder if Devil Pie will work with XFCE/Linpus? Thanks anyway!

I hope for you, I am wrong! I'm also not to versed with xfce. In windows, I think, one could fire a macro to fire events (maximize) for example. I'm sure, such a mechanism should be possible somehow on linux either. But I don't know, how...

jamesendreshowell

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Registered: 2012-07-13

Posts: 1

Re: Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

See http://emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen. Works nice for me under Emacs 23 on Xubuntu 12.04:

;;; stolen from http://emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen
;;; M-x toggle-fullscreen toggles full screen (tested under XFCE)
(defun toggle-fullscreen ()
  (interactive)
  (x-send-client-message nil 0 nil "_NET_WM_STATE" 32
	    		 '(2 "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN" 0)))

Also recommend minimal.el for focusing on writing, coding or org-moding.

Hm. Just found http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MinimalMode which may be best of all.

daggoth

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 42

Re: Starting apps in fullscreen mode (borderless!) mode?

That's a pity. I wonder if Devil Pie will work with XFCE/Linpus? Thanks anyway!

I have used devilspie a lot with xfce, along with its helper gui, gdevilspie. It sounds like exactly what you need. And available in most repos for most distros too.