GNU bug report logs - #16659
ns-use-native-fullscreen breaks fullscreen functionality on maverick secondary monitor when old spaces behaviour is selected, plus slow transition

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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Luigi Rocca <rocca <at> disi.unige.it>
Cc: 16659 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16659: ns-use-native-fullscreen breaks fullscreen
 functionality
 on maverick secondary monitor when old spaces behaviour is selected, plus
 slow transition
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:00:47 +0100

Hello.

I have checked in a fix for 1) as it is a bug.
2) will have to wait as we are in a feature freeze.

	Jan D.

Luigi Rocca skrev 2014-02-05 18:42:
> I am using the following emacs build, from
> http://emacsformacosx.com/ on an updated Mavericks installation: "GNU
> Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of
> 2014-01-27 on bob.porkrind.org"
>
> I'm disabling the native fullscreen functionality in my conf file
> (setq ns-use-native-fullscreen nil) and I have the OSX option
> "Displays have separate spaces" disabled.
>
> While avoiding the native fullscreen does two very welcome things
> (the fullscreen window remains on the current space and the other
> monitor, if attached, is not greyed out) there are two problems:
>
> 1) Going fullscreen works only on the primary laptop monitor (I'm
> using a macbook pro) but not on the secondary monitor on the display
> port. When the emacs frame is on the secondary monitor, "M-x
> toggle-frame-fullscreen" has the following results: - An animation of
> a small black rectangle goes out of the screen (headed to the lower
> right part of the screen - please note the secondary monitor is on
> the upper left wrt the primary one, don't know if this is related or
> not). - A brief macosx error sound is played. - The screen is now
> empty and emacs is nowhere to be seen, neither primary nor secondary
> monitor. - The only way to get the emacs frame back is blindly
> calling toggle-frame-fullscreen again - the frame then returns to its
> previous position.
>
> 2) Even on the working primary monitor there is still a very slow
> scaling transition to fullscreen (and back). I find slow animations
> in Maverick to be annoying and nausea-inducing. Users that are
> disabling native fullscreen functionality are probably trying to
> disable the slow transition too (most other open source apps that
> give the user the option to disable the native fullscreen
> functionality, such as VLC and iterm2, do exactly this and avoid the
> slow animation entirely). It seems reasonable to either disable the
> animation when native fullscreen is disabled or add and additional
> option to disable it and/or control how fast it is (if I've missed
> one I'm sorry, please point it out to me).
>
> I've tested one of the several unofficial osx emacs versions that
> were fullscreen-patched in the past
> (https://github.com/xajler/emacs24-macosx-lion-fullscreen) and it
> works as intended on both counts: it goes fullscreen on both monitors
> and without any animation whatsoever.
>
> If there's anything I can do to help, test etc, please do tell me. I
> am confortable with building software from source and it is not a
> problem for me to checkout and build the latest sources if
> necessary.
>
> Many many thanks for all the amazing work that the emacs developers
> have done in the past and are still doing on this amazing editor.
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Cheers, Luigi Rocca
>
>
>

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