When I try to fullscreen Google Chrome by with meta+f, it's handled by Chrome and not i3.
This means that the tabs and navigation bar disappear.
Has anyone found a way to configure i3 (or Chrome) to handle this like other windows?
I haven't checked the i3 source, but I believe that i3 will issue a fullscreen request to the application if available, that is why it works differently on Chrome and firefox... if the application does not provide this feature, i3 will just maximize the window without title and borders. An example of this happening is gEdit, which provides its own fullscreen feature but does not match to what happens when you issue fullscreen in i3.
Would it be possible to add a config option to i3 to disable sending that fullscreen request for particular apps? In Chrome I'd actually prefer if i3 just maximised the window without title and borders, even though Chrome has its own implementation of "fullscreen".
Has anybody found a solution to this?
My solution so far is to just use keyboard shortcuts (vimperator)
I mapped the following keys
, to previousTab
. to nextTab
< to goBack
> to goForward
seemed easier to press than Shift+[HJKL]
I find 'o' pretty cool to open a searchbar. That's basically the stuff I need to do in fullscreen browser.
I guess this is moving more into Chrome limitations rather than i3.... fullscreen in Chrome is a very discussed issue, with very few options to get around it...
I use an exclusive workspace for browser... that's it. Sorry it is not the answer you are looking for, but it is what I do (I have plenty of space on a 17'' laptop, lol)
It is the same for Firefox. But you can disable this behavior in Firefox in about:config by toggling the flag browser.fullscreen.autohide. Not sure about Chrome, though.
Asked: 2013-05-28 01:16:31 +0000
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Last updated: May 29 '13
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