Just wondering if there's a known way of getting a Mono System.Windows.Forms application to go fullscreen on Ubuntu/Gnome.
Mono is 2.4.2.3 Ubuntu is 9.10
Doing it on Windows requires a pinvoke, clearly not going to work here.
This is what I get setting window border to none, window position to centre, and state to maximised:
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Update.
Have also tried:
this.StartPosition = System.Windows.Forms.FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Maximized;
CTRL-F11
Text = string.Empty; // No caption
MaximizeBox = false;
MinimizeBox = false;
ControlBox = false;
FormBorderStyle = None;
WindowState = Maximized;
FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
Location = new Point(0, 0);
Size = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Size;
All of which I end up with the same result.
I have come across a lead which involves a pinvoke involving _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN but that's as far as I've got with it. Any pointers on that would be appreciated.
_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN will just get rid of the borders. The GNOME panel will still appear.
According to the following post, the secret is to get rid of the minimum/maximum sizes so that the window manager does the resizing itself:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/GNOME/2010-01/msg00035.html
Here is some documentation on the native spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html
http://www.x.org/docs/ICCCM/icccm.pdf
To talk directly to the X Window System you have to pinvoke into XLib. In order to send something like _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN you have to have a pointer to the window and also to the display.
I am not sure how to find the display but I can help with a pointer to the window. When running on X, the property Form.Handle should be a pointer to the X window.
