Every time i press f11 to make my minecraft fullscreen, the gnome panels are ALWAYS annoying me up n' down. How to get rid of 'em? Just clicking again on minecraft doesn't help :(. (Ubuntu 10.10)
Have you tried disabling "desktop effects"? This usually works for me if I have panels showing over fullscreen applications.
This is under:
System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects > None
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I'm sure Arda mentioned this in chat, and it was mentioned in the site too, but for the life of me I wasted 15 minutes trying to get back into TF2 after alt-tabbing out, then wasted 15 minutes trying to find the relevant piece of information again.
So I'll ask: how do you turn "fake fullscreen" (windowed mode maximized without border) in TF2, L4D, HL2 and the other Source games?
Use the following as your command line: (From the library right click on the game, then pick Properties → Set Launch Options.)
-sw -noborder
-sw means "Start Windowed." -noborder tells Windows to not draw borders (titlebar, window buttons) around the window.
You can also designate screen size (e.g. -w 640 -h 480), skip the intro video (-novideo), turn on low violence mode in L4D (-lv) and other options that may or not mean anything to you. A fuller list can be found here.
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I'm trying to play Skyrim on my secondary monitor (dual monitor setup). Short of changing my primary monitor, is there any way to force it to open there? (I play in fullscreen). My initial guess was that simply changing the graphics adapter would do the trick - but it didn't. I'm using Windows 7.
Your best bet is probably going to be to run the game in Borderless Windowed mode. There are a number of mods and scripts to force the game to do this.
This is the most popular one and was recommended when the question was asked here at Gaming.SE, but comments indicate it's having problems after the latest patch - presumably due to Bethesda changing the way the games executable interacts with Steam.
This alternative provides a script for the free, popular AutoHotKey utility which claims to resize the window.
As always, YMMV as to the stability of the game with either of these options, especially this soon after release, while the game is still being very actively patched.
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I'm sure Arda mentioned this in chat, and it was mentioned in the site too, but for the life of me I wasted 15 minutes trying to get back into TF2 after alt-tabbing out, then wasted 15 minutes trying to find the relevant piece of information again.
So I'll ask: how do you turn "fake fullscreen" (windowed mode maximized without border) in TF2, L4D, HL2 and the other Source games?
Use the following as your command line: (From the library right click on the game, then pick Properties → Set Launch Options.)
-sw -noborder
-sw means "Start Windowed." -noborder tells Windows to not draw borders (titlebar, window buttons) around the window.
You can also designate screen size (e.g. -w 640 -h 480), skip the intro video (-novideo), turn on low violence mode in L4D (-lv) and other options that may or not mean anything to you. A fuller list can be found here.
Check more discussion of this question.