Comments on: Bug of the day: maximise across windows

By: Nicolas Grilly

Nicolas Grilly — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:18:21 +0000

I work on a dual screen machine. I’ve wanted this feature when viewing a side-by-side diff with a tool like Meld.

By: Björn

Björn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:40:06 +0000

Fullscreening a window across several displays certainly would be useful.

By: Patrys

Patrys — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:34:56 +0000

How would you handle screens with different heights or L-shaped layouts? It seems broken by design.

By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:13:17 +0000

I can’t remember when, but I’ve wanted this ability before… I always thought it’d be intuitive that if a window has a significant portion of itself in multiple monitors that it’d maximise in those monitors too, but really, I can’t think of any good justification for either of these features.

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:48:17 +0000

You must be sick of hearing from me by now :) but I had a comment about this.

Reading the original bug closely, it seems that Windows XP doesn’t in fact support this – this is a feature added by the reporter’s graphics drivers, and as such wouldn’t be able to change the maximization model (which IIRC is much like Metacity’s).

I expect this is the sort of thing that can be accomplished with a libwnck script, assuming that libwnck exposes the Xinerama monitor layout, and usable space on each monitor (minus panels, etc.) The trickiest bit would be identifying all the possible rectangles that occupy the usable space on two or more monitors, then picking the largest such space.