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macgimp: no full-screen mode?

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macgimp: no full-screen mode? Christine Sommerfeldt 19 Mar 22:20
  macgimp: no full-screen mode? Simon Budig 20 Mar 00:31
Christine Sommerfeldt
2007-03-19 22:20:07 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

macgimp: no full-screen mode?

Hi there,

I switched from linux to mac, happy that I could continue using the gimp.

I wonder why I can't use the full-screen mode in macgimp. Whenever I select it, a hook is shown in the full-sreen menu, but the image window stays as it was.

Has this problem ever occurred?

I'm a photographer using gimp 2.2.11 (Universal) on an intel-mac.

Thanks for your reply,

Christine

Simon Budig
2007-03-20 00:31:38 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

macgimp: no full-screen mode?

Christine Sommerfeldt (info@atelierfuerfotografie.de) wrote:

I switched from linux to mac, happy that I could continue using the gimp.

I wonder why I can't use the full-screen mode in macgimp. Whenever I select it, a hook is shown in the full-sreen menu, but the image window stays as it was.

Has this problem ever occurred?

Yeah, the problem is known from some window managers from linux as well.

The problem is, that some window managers do not respect the "fullscreen" flag as specified in the freedesktop EWMH specification. Gimp just toggles the flag "Hey, window manager, please make this window full screen.". Unfortunately some window managers - apparently the mac GUI as well - don't recognize this flag and ignore it, the window stays in its current position.

The Gimp cannot make the window fullscreen itself, since different window managers might have different ideas of what "fullscreen" actually means (does the window cover the panels? Stretched across multiple screens?) and intentionally leaves it to the window manager. Unfortunately this means, that on some platforms fullscreen does not work - sorry.

Bye,
Simon