Fullscreen is not working on Linux with focusable: false

[hovancik]

• Electron version: 1.7.10
• Operating system: Linux (Debian, Elementary OS)

Expected behavior

Browser window is fullscreen

Actual behavior

Browser window is not fullscreen

How to reproduce

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/hovancik/electron-fullscreen-focusable.git
# Go into the repository
cd electron-fullscreen-focusable
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run the app
npm start

[spotman]

Any thoughts about fixing fullscreen issue?

[lundibundi]

Tested on Arch linux with the same results using Electron 2.0.3 and Electron 3.0.0-beta.1

Steps to reproduce:
Steps in the original post but use npm install electron@2.0.3
Steps in the original post but use npm install electron@3.0.0-beta.1

[hovancik]

The behavior is the same with setKiosk instead of setFullscreen

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[hovancik]

still issue in electron 6.

[lkrms]

@hovancik using your test app, I was able to create a workaround for this (NB: I can't tell if it's an electron bug or a limitation of Linux window management).

// additional APIs
const screen = electron.screen
const os = require('os')

...

  if (os.platform() != 'linux') {
    mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 600, fullscreen: true, focusable: false })
  }
  else {
    let display = screen.getPrimaryDisplay()
    mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
      x: display.bounds.x,
      y: display.bounds.y,
      width: display.size.width,
      height: display.size.height,
      fullscreen: true,
      focusable: false
    })
  }

As best I can tell, this achieves the desired behaviour. On my system (Xfce4), all panels were blocked and unclickable on the primary display until the app was terminated. I did upgrade to electron 8.2.3, but hopefully earlier versions work the same way.

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