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From: Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X launch hijack?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:59:06 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Winston <wbe@ubeblock.psr.com.invalid> wrote:
> I previously wrote in this thread:
>>> The other thing I don't understand is why you need to do that at all.
>>> X11 programs are entirely capable of having their window be full-screen
>>> size even after a standard xinit/startx startup, so I would think you
>>> wouldn't need to do a special startup to get full-screen, unless that's
>>> an openttd issue.
> 
> [or, as you've correctly pointed out, a window manager issue ...]
> 
> to which Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> writes:
>> The issue may be with my .xinitrc invoking the window manager,
>> apparently that was not there before (AND I used a different
>> window manager).
> 
> I'd be surprised if it has anything to do with .xinitrc, but not
> surprised if some window manager has an always-on-top bar of some kind.
> twm, for example, does not.  As Gerhard indicated, window managers
> that have tool bars may also have a way of getting rid of it, or at
> least of disabling its always-on-top property.
>  -WBE

I used fvwm2 before and this time it's xfce4.

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