Closed korakinos closed 7 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.
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.
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.
Yay, I can close an issue! :-)
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.)