[SOLVED] i3 - maximize behaves like full screen

skyer · 2014-07-16 17:57:10

Hi,
I'm using i3 WM. When I press $mod+f, which is supposed to maximize the current window, the 'zoom' goes too much in. I can't see window decorations (the blue bar with window title). i3 bar is hidden also.

Instead, $mod+f closely mimics the full screen mode, the thing invoked by F11. However, when in chromium, pressing F11 also displays the 'you've gone fullscreen' message - which $mod+f does not.

I'd say the issue is something with i3 - but I have no idea what could be it be, or how to solve it. I also don't know what additional information to post.

(I would really like to note some details about the time this started happening, but I honestly don't know. Also, I've done 'pacman -Syu' after longer time, just as I deleted some packages. So the issue really could be there, or somewhere else. Sorry.)

xrandr (I am using VGA and not HDMI)

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
   1920x1200     59.95*+
   1680x1050     59.88  
   1400x1050     59.95  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.90  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x800      59.91  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   720x480       60.00    59.94  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Thanks.

Last edited by skyer (2014-07-17 08:18:10)

ANOKNUSA · 2014-07-16 18:18:06

It seems you may have misunderstood something. There is no "maximize" mode in i3, and neither the Arch wiki nor the i3 User's guide says otherwise.

skyer · 2014-07-16 18:24:37

Well, for the time I've been using i3 (few months), $mod+f has always produced something quite close to window that is maximized.

That is: window is on the whole screen, but I can still see i3bar, and the 'window buttons'.

Also, I could see tabs in chrome when in $mod+f mode. On my other computer, the $mod+f mode works as I expect it to.

Has that changed in some recent release or.. has something bad happened to my installation?

//edit: by 'window buttons' I mean the usual 'file', 'edit', 'view', etc..

//edit: $mod+f produced the same thing as if the window was the only one in the workspace.

Last edited by skyer (2014-07-16 18:32:25)

Gadileth · 2014-07-16 18:30:10

No, it's supposed to be like that.

Fullscreen mode sets the window to fullscreen; really fullscreen. So no i3bar.

ANOKNUSA · 2014-07-16 18:32:28

The only application you've mentioned is Chromium. Is that the only application you've noticed a change in?

ewaller · 2014-07-16 18:38:58

I might suggest a workaround. I bind a couple keys to move windows to and from the scratchpad It allows you to hide a window, allowing other windows to use the space. If there is only one window left, it will fill everything but the i3 bar. When windows are brought back from the scratchpad, they are floating, but can be re-tiled with a keystroke. More than one window can be banished to the scratchpad, they are brought back on a first in first out basis.

skyer · 2014-07-16 18:46:13

This is interesting, it seems as if I was making stuff up.. or could I remember it wrong? Duh. I really am not sure right now. (I've been away for a week, then booted up, updated the whole system, deleted some packages, and then I started getting segfaults in firefox, pidgin, thunderbird - those problems seem to be solved now, but the chromium thing remains.)

@ANOKNUSA: I don't use many 'modern' apps, but I keep gedit installed
Upon pressing $mod+f, gedit doesn't have the control buttons, just the text. (ie. no cogweel, open, or document title).

@ewaller: that probably is the solution, and I will definitely try it later. I'm really perplexed about the current situation though.

//edit:

so I've been looking up videos of i3 on the internet, and yeah, no i3bar on fullscreen. Maybe I am just so used to only having one window per workspace I accidentally mixed those two together. Sincerely sorry about that.

does anyone have any idea how to fix the chrome fullscreen thing? or maybe, that's normal too...

Last edited by skyer (2014-07-16 19:04:59)

ANOKNUSA · 2014-07-16 19:11:17

ewaller wrote:

I might suggest a workaround. I bind a couple keys to move windows to and from the scratchpad It allows you to hide a window, allowing other windows to use the space. If there is only one window left, it will fill everything but the i3 bar.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to just put everything in a tabbed or stacked container?

skyer wrote:

@ANOKNUSA: I don't use many 'modern' apps, but I keep gedit installed
Upon pressing $mod+f, gedit doesn't have the control buttons, just the text. (ie. no cogweel, open, or document title).

What do you mean by not "keeping any 'modern' apps?" How are Chromium, Firefox and Thunderbird not "modern?" Anyway, I installed Gedit to test this out, and it seems to pass its own weird, unique options with the window manager. It doesn't honor i3's border settings, for example, andn won't switch to floating mode the way other applications do.

skyer · 2014-07-16 19:17:57

By modern apps I meant gtk3 versions of gedit, evince, eog, and stuff like that.

I didn't mean to imply that firefox,chromium are not modern.

So I guess we'll close this with 'my own stupidity' as the cause.

The only thing which doesn't work properly after all is Chromium - at least I've got that tested - I tried it today on my work computer.

Ziusudra · 2014-07-17 07:14:49

Until a fairly recent update, Chromium would ignore the full-screen signal sent by i3. So i3 would not draw the title-bar or borders but Chromium would still display its tabs and toolbar. The current behavior you are seeing is "normal". (Well, except maybe for the lack of the "You have gone full screen" message, that might be a bug or intended.)

skyer · 2014-07-17 07:50:05

Damn. I loved it that way.

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[SOLVED] i3 - maximize behaves like full screen

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