[Bug 57978] Re: [Bug 57978] Re: [Dapper] metacity does not all Citrix ICAclient (and others) go fullscreen

[Stefan Kluth]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> building the edgy package on dapper should work fine. Other way to get a patched package:
> - apt-get source metacity
> - cd metacity-2.14.5
> - patch -p0 < bugzilla.patch
> - apt-get build-dep metacity
> - debuild

Ok, so I patched metacity 2.14.5 source from Dapper with the patch from

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343115

but the patch had a few rejects.  I compiled anyway and installed the two 
resulting packages for libmetacity and metacity.  After restart gdm I 
tried acroread in fullscree mode (^l) and lo-and-behold it works!  Off to 
my wifes account, change the config to use metacity instead of sawfish, 
start the citrix ICAclient and it works ... almost perfectly.  It goes 
fullscreen just fine above the panels, however, when I open an application 
on the Windows desktop (i.e. IE) the panels appear again.  Clicking into 
the background of the Windows desktop makes it completely fullscreen 
again.

So there is still a small problem that opening a window on the Windows 
desktop makes the panels go on-top again.  The windows of Windows in the 
citrix ICAclient are still managed by the linux window manager, i.e. 
metacity.  So somehow opening a new window in metacity triggers a change 
of order of the active windows.  I don't know metacity well enough to go 
deeper though ... other than observing that a fullscreen application 
opening yet another window is surely a rather special case that might not 
be handled correctly yet.

Anyway, the fix works mostly, but it is not the end.  I wonder if we 
should also check with rdesktop?

Cheers, Stefan

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