F11 and full screen mode in LXDE (SOLVED)

[Howard]

I posted this in the LXDE forum, but it seems there is very little activity there, so I am reposting here in the hope that someone has a solution.

I am looking at LXDE with PCLinuxOS for my Dell mini 10v netbook. (And possibly for my other older machines too as this little thing is about twice as powerful as either of them.) Up to now I've been using the various KDE versions of PCLOS, so I'm finding my way.

One problem I do have is that with the short screen of the netbook (what the suppliers call "wide" screen ) I want to use full screen mode in my applications, (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice etc) and this is generally called up by pressing F11 (on the DellMini it has to be <Fn+F11>), or from the drop down menu under view. Each application is slightly different.

<Fn+F11> works exactly the same as the menu option when I am in KDE3.5, but in LXDE I get a lesser response from the <Fn+F11>. It only gives a partly fuller screen, and in OOo, where F11 should produce the Styles menu it does exactly the same, just removing a few pixels from the top of the display. (<Ctrl+Shift+J>) does give the proper full screen.

I don't know too much about the inner workings, but I'm guessing that the system has some sort of universal "full screen" mode and intercepts the F11 code before it gets to the application. I'd prefer the full full screen with a single key rather than have to click drop down menus. Is there some way to disable the system response to F11 and have it passed on to the application?

I have just confirmed that a LXDE installation on a computer that recognises F11 alone (i.e without the Fn key), also shows this behaviour, so it's nothing to do with the netbook.

[Howard]

This has been solved for me in the LXDE forum.  

I learn that LXDE is built on openbox, and this F11 behaviour is set in /home/(me)/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml.   Search for F11 and comment out (or remove) the three lines.  (Commenting out requires the form <!-- .... --> for each line - you have to change both ends.)

Added later:

To get the best of both worlds, change "F11" to "A-F11" instead of removing the item.  This allows F11 for applications, and <Alt+F11> gives the openbox "full screen" mode.