On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:28:12PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
On 16-12-2015, at 5:20 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
So what window manager is rasbian using?
I believe it is called LXDE, which probably means little more you you than it does me. More than anything it reads like the model badge on a 70???s Japanese car.
Does it work properly when you run the VM with -fullscreenDirect on the command line?
It does. If we really need to I can add that flag to the startup script but I can???t help thinking there is a a better way out there somewhere.
Well, according to the internet, which knows a lot more about this topic than I ever will, LXDE is a "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment". And the buggy window manager from the <vendor name deleted> extremely popular Linux distribution is a feature rich, modern, and all around annoying improvement over simple implementations such as LXDE.
So it actually makes perfect sense that LXDE might be a very simple window manager that does not understand all the fancy bells and whistles that have been added over the years, such as the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN window manager hint.
I think that adding the -fullscreenDirect flag when running under LXDE is probably the right thing to do.
Dave