[xmonad] Several issues

[Don Stewart]

magnus:
> Anze Slosar wrote:
> [..]
> > c) More importantly, what is the status of fullscreen in open office
> > impress? I can sort of get it to work by floating it and then reszing it
> > and then moving it around... But it is not ideal to do this just before
> > you want to have a presentation in front of a large audience...
> 
> One new xmonad user to another :-)
> 
> I've noticed a similar case with VMWare Workstation and its fullscreen
> mode.  Its “fullscreen” under xmonad ends up meaning
> no-menu-or-buttonbar-inside-its-xmonad-area, not really what I'd call
> fullscreen myself.  I usually “fix” this by swapping through layouts
> until it's alone on the screen then I remove my Gnome panels.  This is
> good enough but it'd be great if xmonad would be better at taking hints.

yes, up till now we've usually relied on the fullscreen tiling mode for
fullscreen apps. However, there are many apps that want to set their own
fullscreen functionality. Detecting this hint, and giving it the
geometry it wants, is on the todo list.