On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:05, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15:59 07 Oct 2003, Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | On Tuesday 07 October 2003 02:57 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: > | > I thought I knew how to do this but I am unable to do so currently. How > | > can I launch an application, say, mplayer so that there is no window > | > frame title bar etc? I thought I had this information but can't find > | > it. Googling for hours leads me too far astray. I am not sure what the > | > x term for all the things are. > [...] > | I think this would be Window / Desktop manager specific, rather than X11. > | Someone correct me if I'm wrong. > | What Window manager are you using? > | > | For example, I use FVWM2, and I can put a "style" definition in fvwmrc file > | for different styles for different apps (eg. no frame, no scroolbar, etc). > > It is a window manager thing. The default setup for most WMs is to provide > decorations (title bar etc) for all windows not marked as "transient" > (which are basicly popups - menus etc). > > The solution is to configure your window manager to not decorate that > particular app. As Reuben remarks, this is easy in FVWM and tractable > in most others. > > Personally, I don't use title bars or borders at all. Makes for a much nicer > desktop to my eyes. See: > > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/fvwm/ Thanks to you both. I think I am on the right track now. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
