On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:04:46PM -0500, Paul Donohue wrote: > Out of curiosity, I tried using the 'Window Rules' plugin in Compiz to force > Hulu and MythTV to a particular window size (that's not the size of the > actual display), but both programs seemed to start up at the forced window > size, then resize themselves to the real display size after a few seconds. > So now I'm curious to know if there actually is any way to manually change > the size of a "full-screen" window...
I figured out one way to do this in Compiz: Run 'ccsm', select 'General Options' then 'Display Settings'. Uncheck 'Detect Outputs', then edit the value listed under 'Outputs', and set it to the desired size of the full-screen window. Now you can run Hulu or MythTV, and they will use only the specified area of the display. Unfortunately, this setting affects all windows, not just full-screen windows, so you'll have to configure this before running your full-screen application, then un-configure it when you're done. But it is at least possible to do.
