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VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

Full disclosure I'm an ex-ubuntu fanboy so I'm kinda used to having eveything work out of the box. I want to learn more about configuring my laptop lean and mean so I chose Arch to force me to learn. I have Arch installed and I have a few apps install like chromium, i3-gaps, and fluxbox at the moment, but I'm running into a problem. I can't get any window managers to use the full screen. I have a thinkpad x230 on a dock with a external monitor hooked up via vga port. Here is a picture of my problem  http://imgur.com/a/PiQW7  I can move a terminal window out side of the rectangle that chromiun is using but I can't get anything to maximize any bigger that that. I'm not sure where to go from here. In Ubuntu it just worked.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,722

Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

I'm not sure exactly what I am looking at.  Is the grey area outside the window the extent of the desktop?
I know nothing of i3-gapps, but I do use i3 as my primary WM.  Any chance your window is set for floating mode?

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VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

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Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

Yes it is. I didn't realize till after I looked at it that the gray background blends in. I should have used an actual background. That picture was actually fluxbox as you can see I can't even get the tool bar to extend any farther. It's set to 100

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

If you disconnect the external monitor, is there still an issue?

VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

No it works as expected. Off the dock.

VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

it looks like the external display is mirroring the laptop screen. The way I had it setup in Ubuntu was when I would close the lid the external monitor would be the primary/only screen in use.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

Good call drcouzelis! 

VoiDeR, you may want to check out xrandr

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jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: I can't get any Window Manager to us the whole screen.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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