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Toggle Fullscreen shortkey — Cinnamon Desktop

Post by J_Adriano » Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:12 pm

I’m new on Cinnamon Desktop so, here is my question:
Is there a shortkey to force a window in fullscreen mode? Something like Alt + F11 on XFCE.
I missed this function because Cave Story+ have a bug wich make the game pause frequently
and is associated to put fullscreen on game settings. I have to do this via Window Manager.

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Re: Toggle Fullscreen shortkey — Cinnamon Desktop

Post by LanceM » Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:39 pm

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Re: Toggle Fullscreen shortkey — Cinnamon Desktop

Post by smurphos » Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:55 am

The default fullscreen keyboard shortcut in Cinnamon for any window is Alt-F12.

F11 is application specific — i.e. most browsers use F11 for their built in fullscreen view.

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Re: Toggle Fullscreen shortkey — Cinnamon Desktop

Post by J_Adriano » Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:21 am

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Re: Toggle Fullscreen shortkey — Cinnamon Desktop

Post by AZgl1800 » Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:30 am

smurphos wrote: ⤴ Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:55 am The default fullscreen keyboard shortcut in Cinnamon for any window is Alt-F12.

F11 is application specific — i.e. most browsers use F11 for their built in fullscreen view.

Alt-F12 does nothing on my laptop, F11 performs as expected.
Firefox and Text Editor both react by Full Screen / Back to previous screen.

LibreOffice Writer is a thing of its’ own, F11 brought up a side menu which I don’t use.

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Enabling Full-Screen Mode for Linux Applications on a Particular Display

The xterm software simulates a vt100 and Tektronic terminal, with different character combinations for functions like moving the cursor, clearing the screen, and drawing characters. To execute these functions, tput consults the terminfo database for the relevant escape sequences. For further information, refer to the manual page and type. If you wish to run processes on a server using ssh, use screen.

Linux force application to full screen on a specific display

As part of my job, I’m creating a highly specialized software that requires the use of two full-screen applications, each displayed on a separate monitor. To simplify things, I’m presently utilizing LUbuntu 64-bit operating system and a relatively new AMD Radeon HD graphics card graphics card (although I’m unable to recall the exact version at the moment).

My preference would be to continue using SDL2, but I am also comfortable with the idea of making modifications to it or switching to another library if necessary.

Is it feasible to run two fullscreen applications on separate Linux monitors? If yes, what steps should I follow to set it up? How can I determine the x/y coordinates of the displays to instruct SDL to move the window to that monitor for fullscreen mode?

This post was not submitted to askubuntu as it is uncertain whether the question pertains solely to the Ubuntu platform.

The following is the result generated by xrandr -q .

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 3200 x 3200 DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP6 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP7 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP8 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP9 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 533mm x 312mm 1280x1024 50.0 + 75.0 60.0 30.0 24.0 1920x1080 60.0 + 50.0* 59.9 30.0 25.0 30.0 24.0 30.0 30.0 24.0 1776x1000 50.0 59.9 25.0 24.0 30.0 30.0 1680x1050 50.0 60.0 30.0 24.0 1400x1050 50.0 60.0 30.0 24.0 1600x900 50.0 60.0 30.0 24.0 1440x900 50.0 59.9 30.0 24.0 1280x960 50.0 60.0 30.0 24.0 1280x800 50.0 59.8 30.0 24.0 1152x864 50.0 59.9 75.0 30.0 24.0 1280x768 50.0 59.8 30.0 24.0 1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9 30.0 24.0 1024x768 50.0 75.0 70.1 30.0 24.0 60.0 1152x648 50.0 59.9 800x600 50.0 30.0 24.0 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 720x576 59.9 30.0 24.0 50.0 720x480 50.0 30.0 24.0 60.0 59.9 640x480 50.0 30.0 24.0 75.0 72.8 67.0 60.0 59.9 DFP10 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 72.0 1280x960 76.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 1152x864 75.0 60.0 1280x768 76.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 1280x720 76.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 72.8 67.0 59.9 640x350 60.0 70.1 CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 

After scouring through various forums for a clearer understanding of what to do with this data, it appears that I am expected to take certain actions such as:

xrandr —output DFP9 —auto —output DFP10 —auto

Despite performing the action, the display remains singularly identified as «:0».

What type of configuration do you have? Are you utilizing Xinerama to merge the two displays or do you have two distinct X displays?

When working with dual monitors, each display must possess its own -display or DISPLAY environment variable. This can be utilized to launch a fresh application.

$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 $ xterm -display :0.0 

Launch a terminal on the secondary display to access its corresponding environment variable.

Additionally, there is a parameter called -geometry which follows the format of [Wth,Ht+X+Y].

$ xterm -geometry 132x80+500+0 

Typically, when you enable Xinerama, your secondary display will have an offset of +X+Y.

Naturally, utilizing the app necessitates specifying process command as command-line arguments, which are then utilized by X in initializing the window. Width and height are measured in text characters for xterm, while X/Y denotes screen pixels.

Assuming you have dominion over the X arrangement and other programs will not appear on the production workstations, it may be advisable to deactivate the «Xinerama» function and configure two screens. This way, your applications can connect to :0.0 and :0.1 for screen size information.

How to Show OSD Overlay in Fullscreen Linux Apps and, Date and Time. To show a continuously updating date and time HUD, run the command below: $ while true; do date; sleep 1; done | osd_cat —align center. — …

Full screen window command from Linux terminal?

Cinnamon allows users to activate full screen mode for the active window using a hotkey. Often, programs also have a full screen toggle function. However, the command that triggers this action is unclear. I am curious about the method of issuing such a command in a terminal emulator to adjust the window size to include taskbars or panels.

After reading @dirkt’s comment, I examined wmctrl , a utility that enables you to customize these settings. This is perfect if you want to execute toggle fullscreen on any programs you prefer from a shell script or other customized location.

This is an instance that switches the active window to fullscreen mode.

wmctrl -r ':ACTIVE:' -b toggle,fullscreen 

Refer to the man page for a detailed understanding of the available options, and consult the tutorial for practical examples.

Unity — How to start terminal in full screen?, Create a new entry named «Launch Terminal Fullscreen» (or whatever), and enter the following as the command: gnome-terminal —window —full-screen …

How to write full-screen Linux console app/script?

The appropriate keywords to search for are eluding me, making it difficult to research. A few command-line applications, like vi and less, have the capability to dominate the entire console screen and offer an interactive interface for users. After the user exits the program, the screen returns to its previous state. My aim is to create a program that mimics this behavior, but I’m not aware of the term used to describe it or any documentation that outlines how to achieve it.

So, my question is threefold:

1. What search terms should I utilize to locate documentation on this topic?
2. It would be beneficial if you could provide links to the mentioned documentation, in case you are willing to do so.
3. Is it possible to achieve this using a scripting language such as Ruby or bash? Although I am proficient in C, the environment I am working in is better suited to interpreted languages.

According to some comments, your search is directed towards ncurses. The Linux Documentation Project provides an excellent C-based HOWTO guide on ncurses, which I personally utilized to begin learning about it.

The website TLDp.org hosts a guide on how to program using NCURSES, which can be accessed through the following link: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/.

The functionality being discussed is the alternate screen buffer. It’s likely that [N]Curses provides this feature by default, and there are also curses bindings available for scripting languages like Ruby and Python.

Using the tput program, ncurses can be accessed in bash. The ncurses library and predecessors like curses work by sending escape sequences to the terminal. Various combinations of characters were used by the xterm program to perform actions such as moving the cursor, clearing the screen, and drawing characters. These combinations typically started with an escape character, which is why they are referred to as escape sequences. The escape character (represented by \e) is also used in people’s PS1 shell variables to color the prompt or set the window title.

To execute the requested operations, tput utilizes the terminfo database to identify the appropriate escape sequences.

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How to see full terminal output using `screen`?

To keep processes running on a server via ssh, I utilize screen. Although I successfully retrieve the previous terminal by executing screen -r , initially, I can only view as much output as fits on my terminal window. Unfortunately, I am unable to scroll up to view additional output. The process I am running prints a large amount of information to the console, indicating that there is more to examine.

Is there a method to view the complete output, similar to leaving the terminal open instead of utilizing screen?

Suppose I execute a for loop to display the numbers 1 through 1000. As there are 1000 lines to print, it takes some time to display them (I wait for 10 seconds on every iteration to ensure it is not instant). Next, I detach from my screen. When I reconnect to my screen the following day, I desire to scroll up and view all 1000 echos, rather than just the last few that fit on my terminal.

I am unsure of your intentions, but I presume you seek this.

Pressing the combination of ‘ctrl’ and ‘a’ keys, and then selecting the opening square bracket key, followed by using the up and down arrow keys.

The final mentioned key is the opening square bracket, although it may not be easily visible on several web browsers.

In case you replace the old screen session with a newer one having a bigger terminal size, you can trigger a screen redraw (only if the active application recognizes them) by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A or Ctrl + Z.

How to Use Linux’s screen Command, screen -S monitor. At the command prompt in our new window session, we’ll launch dmesg and use the -H (human-readable) and -w (wait for …

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