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Very simple tool to display some text as large as possible
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windowed mode #7

Closed korakinos closed 7 months ago

korakinos commented 4 years ago

I think a windowed (i.e. non-fullscreen) mode could be useful for live presentations where I want to show something else beside live-typed text.

I found that the code change to disable fullscreen is extremely simple: Just comment the line gtk_window_fullscreen(GTK_WINDOW(window)); in sm.c.

I don't know how involved it would be to have windowed mode togglable by a shortcut or a command line switch, and I understand if you don't want to make the change in order to keep screen-message simple. (I can use my locally compiled windowed version for the time being.)

hartwork commented 8 months ago

I have a similar use case where I want half the screen to be a big countdown clock (five minutes to zero) and screen-message would work well for that if I could just put it in windowed mode :+1: I found now that with wmctrl -r sm -b remove,fullscreen it is already possible to put sm into windowed mode. Maybe it works well for others too.

nomeata commented 8 months ago

Maybe I never worried because with my window manager (XMonad), I can just resize the full-screen window, and place it where it needs to be.

@hartwork’s suggestion is a good work-around though, although I’m not opposed to a command line flag for a windowed mode.

korakinos commented 7 months ago

Maybe I never worried because with my window manager (XMonad), I can just resize the full-screen window, and place it where it needs to be.

Of course! I only guess that whatever I was using four years ago didn't make this possible, but now (with i3), this is not a problem for me anymore. As far as I am concerned, you can close this issue; or leave it open in case anyone wants to implement the feature.

nomeata commented 7 months ago

Yay, I can close an issue! :-)