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[Jeff Ebert <455378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam,

Useful input. I have a patch for remmina that specifies the
_NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint with the number of coordinates of
monitors to both of my monitors (when I had two).

The binary choice of "fullscreen in one monitor" and "fullscreen across
all monitors" is not too much to ask an application to provide. The
configuration code for my patch is still needed. If anybody wants to
take it on, I will help you get started.

The general case of NxM monitors in a grid, which is supported by this
hint, is pretty difficult to configure and it is not something that each
application should need to provide. I suggest that it's a desktop
environment function to help the user decide, say, that VNC viewer #1
should fullscreen across monitors 1&2 and VNC viewer #2 should
fullscreen across monitors 3&4, and mplayer should fullscreen on monitor
#5 only.

It would be great to have a tool that could modify the hint for any
application. Does anybody know if this is possible and/or being worked
on? I envision a small utility that can set the hint on any running
window with a nice gui to arrange fullscreen windows.

I might add that in the old days, there would have been a configuration
knob *somewhere* in the WM to let the user choose the default behavior
of _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN. :-|

Jeff

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Title:
  Can't resize windows to be displayed on several monitors