Ubuntu 12.04 Full Screen without Unity Hub

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Published on 2012-09-16T04:42:10Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 3:50 UTC
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I couldn't find an answer for this, so I thought I would try here.

My problem is, I have some games on Wine that play in full screen mode but I can't really get them in full screen mode. When they start up, they end up with the GUI's "HUD" overlapping the game which is really annoying and well kills the option to play the game. This has also happened in a few of my Linux programs as well. While I wrote its a problem with Unity, it really isn't limited to this though. I've done full screen mode on Unity and had the Unity side bar and top menu overlap, I've used Gnome and had the same issue happen, Gnome menu is in the top, Cinnamon had the same issue.

Sometimes if I Alt-Tab out of it and back into the program it MIGHT remove the HUD but that doesn't always work, and lets face it, full screen mode that is killed by the GUI just isn't something that can really be ignored.

Any suggestions or help would be highly welcomed.

My laptop http://www.cnet.com/laptops/asus-g53jw-a1-15/4507-3121_7-34210244.html

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Seems so far to be an issue with Unity and Gnome being in 3D mode, and possibly an issue with my NVidia card and XServe (I think that was it...). Going to Unity/Gnome 2d modes seem to help with this for the moment...

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