What if fullscreen windows could also be tiled?

[superdupermart]

I don't know if it's appropriate to write this here.

I often watch YouTube and other content in full screen mode on Chrome.
It would be useful if I could tile content while maintaining full screen mode.

I've searched, but I can't find a tiling extension with this feature.

Thank you so much for creating this wonderful extension.

[domferr]

Hey, thank you for opening this discussion. How can we allow tiling a fullscreened window? What I mean is that we cannot do the usual "grab & tile" thing

[superdupermart]

https://youtu.be/FyrrY8ljOm0

Please refer to this video.

It works on Kali Linux, but it behaves differently on other distributions. I don't know why.

I used the Super key and the number pad on my keyboard to tiles.
There are also parts where I used the Super key and the mouse.

The key to the video is that it tiles without losing full screen mode.
Thank you for checking.

[domferr]

Wow, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[georgefst]

This is something I've always wanted!

Really it's arguably a fault of particular programs (most commonly browsers) that they have a special minimal/zero-UI mode that triggers when fullscreened. Those two concepts should be able to be treated separately.

But in a world where we can't realistically fix every app, it would be great if we could trick them in to thinking they're in fullscreen. This is the first time I've ever actually seen it working. I wonder how the Kali people are implementing it.

[georgefst]

Really it's arguably a fault of particular programs (most commonly browsers) that they have a special minimal/zero-UI mode that triggers when fullscreened. Those two concepts should be able to be treated separately.

I've just discovered that Firefox can actually be kept tiled when in "fullscreen" mode (--kiosk or F11) by setting full-screen-api.ignore-widgets.

[georgefst]

And it even works with videos. Life-changing.

Combine this with the ability to hide the GNOME top bar, e.g. with the Just Perfection extension, and I've got everything I want.

This just reinforces my initial hunch that there's nothing Tiling Shell should really do here. It's a fault of particular apps.

[domferr]

This feature would be interesting. I have made a quick test and I can tell you that, after making a window fullscreen, moving and resizing it via the classical API is not allowed. I didn't find any solution, and looks like GNOME does not allow to have more than one window with the fullscreen attribute