Friday, 28 November 2008

Howto Fix the Firefox taking up the whole screen problem

Problem

Firefox taking up the whole screen problem


Solution

What you need to do is for a temporary fix is press "F11" twice

Permanent fix

Go into the Compiz Settings Manager and find "Windows Decorations" add the following line to "Decoration Windows"

(any) | class=Firefox

Once you've done that close out CCSM, then open CCSM back up again, then change that to:

any

Then that should solve the problem, it worked flawlessly. If that doesn't work you can always revert back to metacity

metacity --replace

4 comments:

BobCFC said...

Ha! This gave me the idea to do the opposite: how to hide the titlebar in Firefox to maximise vertical screenspace.

e.g. use the ! sign to invert such as

(any) & !(class=Minefield)


I already use plugins to hide the menubar and the statusbar but this is the icing on the cake, thanks.

MaXeR said...

can't find "Windows Decorations" .. do you mean "Windows Rules" ?
i added this:
class=Firefox
in "Non resizable windows" and "Non movable windows" ..
don't know if this fix the problem!

BobCFC said...

Window Decorations is in the Effects section

Chris said...

Do you mean take out the parenthesis around "any" and keep the rest of the "| class=Firefox" or replace the entire string with just "any"?