[MPlayer-users] Fullscreen with Metacity 2.4.13 and Gnome2 panel (FIX)

[Arjan Opmeer]

Hi,

When using MPlayer-0.90rc3 and Metacity 2.4.13 toggling to fullscreen
doesn't raise the MPlayer window above the Gnome2 top panel.

This is caused by MPlayer trying to raise the window to the top by using
state _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE. This is not sufficient for the Gnome2 top panel.
It does however raise the window above the bottom panel.

I've been doing some hacking in libvo/x11_common.c and basically commented
out every line that mentions metacity_hack. Also I commented out the "if
(net_wm_support & SUPPORT_ABOVE)" clause in vo_x11_setlayer to force MPlayer
to try to use the other states.

It now can succesfully raise the MPlayer window above all the Gnome2 panels
by using the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN state. It appears that Metacity 2.4.13
adheres to the stacking order as desribed here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec/1.3/html/x362.html#STACKINGORDER

I hope you will find this information useful and will be able to include it
in a next version of MPlayer. For questions or remarks, please CC me as I am
not subscribed to this list.

Cheers,

Arjan