[vlc] Re: VLC window X11/Gnome

[Dermot McGahon]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:43:24 +0100, Benjamin PRACHT  
<bigben+spam at videolan.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005, Philippe DE PECHY wrote :
>> Dear Sir or Madam,
>> I'd like to display a video on a Linux/X11/Gnome computer in a non-full
>> screen VLC window without any border (I need the video and only the  
>> video).
>> Is it possible?
>> Thanks a lot
>> Regards
>>
>>
>
> Well, first, disable embedded video in the proprieties of the wxwindows
> plungin in the preferences. Then, you can remove borders and decorations
> of the video window, by using an appropriate windows manager (such as
> sawfish, I don't think metacity can do that), taht will allow to choose
> the decoration type on a application basis.

You can do it with metacity using an application called devilspie.

It can also be done by hacking modules/video_output/x11/xcommon.c:

             /* Set window manager hints and properties: size hints,  
command,
              * window's name, and accepted protocols */
             XSetWMNormalHints( p_vout->p_sys->p_display,
                                p_win->base_window, &xsize_hints );
             XSetCommand( p_vout->p_sys->p_display, p_win->base_window,
                          p_vout->p_vlc->ppsz_argv, p_vout->p_vlc->i_argc );

             // hack to remove window decorations in windowed mode
             Atom prop;
             mwmhints_t mwmhints;

             mwmhints.flags = MWM_HINTS_DECORATIONS;
             mwmhints.decorations = False;

             prop = XInternAtom( p_vout->p_sys->p_display,  
"_MOTIF_WM_HINTS",
                                 False );
             XChangeProperty( p_vout->p_sys->p_display,
                              p_win->base_window,
                              prop, prop, 32, PropModeReplace,
                              (unsigned char *)&mwmhints,
                              PROP_MWM_HINTS_ELEMENTS );


Dermot.
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