[Cialug] Maximized Apps

Paul Gray gray at cs.uni.edu
Thu Mar 22 10:31:24 CDT 2012


On 03/22/2012 10:21 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> There are now a plethora of apps that look good full-screen (Citrix,
> VirtualBox to name a few), .. one behavior that bugs me is that a
> maximized window appears on all desktops.
>
> I realize that it is 'binding' itself to the underlying desktop, which is
> replacated across workspaces, but is there any way to avoid this behavior
> (i.e. force the 'maximuzed windows' to only be visible in the workspace
> where it was originally created)?

This must be a factor of your window manager.  My full-screen apps - 
including VirtualBox VMs and mythtv sessions running full screen - are 
bound to the screen that they were spawned into (kde, xfce4).

What window manager are you using?
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