[xmonad] Re: XMonad.Layout.NoBorders

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:59:16PM -0500, gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
> On 2007.12.19 10:57:33 -0500, David Roundy <daveroundy at gmail.com> scribbled 0.3K characters:
> > No, I don't have time.  And I'm not sure why one would want no borders
> > on floating windows...
> >
> > David
> 
> Perhaps I don't fully understand the issues, but wouldn't such a thing be
> nice for things like MPlayer?
> 
> The other day, I happened to play a video through MPlayer, and I noticed
> (using smartBorders/NoBorders)  that there was an ugly border on the left
> and upper edges, and that it detracted from the cinematic experience. It
> was otherwise fullscreen and nice, but not as good as it could've been.

Indeed, that's why the requester wanted this.  I guess the easy solution is
not to float mplayer.  I don't know how badly mplayer misbehaves in tiled
mode.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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