Well I do understand it's basic, but I like how isolated the applications can be. For example, I can go full screen with flash on IE for Metro, or with other "full-screen" applications and it will only hijack the portion of the screen that is taken up by IE. I can keep using Skype or even the Desktop on the side and multi-task. If I try to fullscreen Flash elsewhere it hijacks the screen and even with a second monitor breaks my multi-tasking experience.
So if anyone made a Tiling Window Manager that isolates how much an application can control, and gets rid of this config it to make it work mentality, they would have me sold. I love having multiple desktops on Linux, one feature that Windows lacks to this day. Their tiling, although incomplete, it works for me and what I do.
Sorry if I offended anyone, I'm not a tiling guru, though I'd love to be. I just prefer applications that "just work" without too much effort on the end-users part, as opposed to getting in the way of the end-user.
Are you sure? On my machine, fullscreening, e.g., YouTube will:
- in FF, launch a new window, showing a fraction of the frame.
- in Chrome, replace the current window, showing a fraction of the frame.
In both cases, if I want to see the uncropped video, I have to manually switch to Full mode. I know there are hooks[0] to change this behavior to automatically launch a floating window (I don't use YouTube enough to bother), but I don't think there's a way to get the behavior GP described. Is there?
I believe that that is an issue with Flash, not with xmonad.
Xmonad only lets applications draw to as much of the screen as then are alloted.
If you fullscreen Firefox, it will simply hide UI elements, not take up the entire screen. It is not xmonads responsibility to automatically scale applications.
So if anyone made a Tiling Window Manager that isolates how much an application can control, and gets rid of this config it to make it work mentality, they would have me sold. I love having multiple desktops on Linux, one feature that Windows lacks to this day. Their tiling, although incomplete, it works for me and what I do.
Sorry if I offended anyone, I'm not a tiling guru, though I'd love to be. I just prefer applications that "just work" without too much effort on the end-users part, as opposed to getting in the way of the end-user.