issue with viewing apps in full-screen with F11

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On 10/3/07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/10/2007, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > in my home computer, when I press F11 to view the window in
> > full-screen, the window itself is maximized and the title bar is
> > hidden, as expected, but not the menus bar (with File, Edit, etc...).
> > Usually when the app has a full-screen option (for example, evince),
> > and I use it, instead of F11, it hides the menu bar. In this case, if
> > I press F11 to deactivate, the menu bar (and only this bar) remain
> > hidden.
> >
> > This is not proper behaviour, as it doesn't happen in my work box, and
> > another box I tried. In both I'm using Feisty.
> >
> > I'd like to restore the default behaviour of hiding/un-hiding the menu
> > bar with F11, without loosing every other setting I configured in the
> > last months I've been using gnome (i.e., not removing the ~/.gnome*
> > dirs).
>
> F11 toggles full-screen mode in Firefox and AFAIK /only/ in Firefox.
> It sounds like it's doing exactly what it's meant to.

Ok, so I was wrong to assume it was a gnome general full-screen
feature. But evince also uses it, along with firefox.

My problem could even be an evince-specific mis-configuration problem.
Does this help anyone giving me answers?

regards
FF