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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h11mo ago0 comments

It's probably for building appliance/kiosk systems, though it's handy for anything where you just want to run a single application fullscreen.

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171862744011mo ago· 2 in thread

If you want a single application fullscreen, you can just not start a window manager though.

p_l11mo ago

In practice multiple applications get confused, and some don't support -geometry or equivalent.

One specific case I dealt with was Chrome/Chromium that provided all sorts of annoyances until we dropped in a minimal WM (back then it was awesomewm, I didn't know about cage or it didn't exist yet)

171862744011mo ago

> applications get confused

Haven't had that yet. I thought of a single application the whole time, aka. kiosk, then it shouldn't matter.

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