I tested it again: it do not work in metacity/gnome either. Is that a problem of the application? or of my window manager?
2012/5/10 Frédéric Dreier <frederic.dre...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I am trying to force an application to have a certain size but it does > not work as expected yet: the application window resize well but not > it's content. > > The application I try to resize is VirtualBox. I want it to run in a > kiosk like mode (full-screen) for a project named 'Cube' : > https://github.com/jonosterman/cube/blob/master/cube-client-wm/src/main/java/ch/admin/vbs/cube/client/wm/ui/x/imp/XWindowManager2.java > (perhaps some parts are commented right now since I'm still testing some > stuff) > > There is no other window manager running in the background. > > What append is: > - I start VirtualBox > - Once I detect a VirtualBox Window (based on its title), I re-parent > it into another window (which is used to display a 5-pixels border > around the application's window) -> line 135 > - and resize it to fullscreen (using XMoveResizeWindow) > - I then get resizeRequest event (with smaller size) that I ignore (is > that wrong?) -> line 315 > - then ConfigureNotify event where I check if it is the correct size. > If not, I resize it again. -> line 389 > - then ResizeRequest and Configuration again (VirtualBox actually > display a welcome screen before showing the application) > > > At the end the application's window has got the desired dimension but > not its content. > > Something odd (at least for me): when it is completely started, > resizing (XResizeWindow) it at the 'fullscreen size' again does > nothing, but resizing it to another size or moving it one pixel away, > trigger its content resize. > > I really need help, because I already tried so much way to trick it > (without success) and actually want to solve the problem in a clean > way (It works well under metacity/gnome, I check there code, but did > not find why). > > Regards, > > Frederic _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
