GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 729437
Presentations and full screen videos should not be presented during overview
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:22:47 UTC
Scenario 1: User is powering a video on an external display while working on primary display. User cannot launch applications from gnome-shell without causing the the video on the external display to be "presented", causing distraction for those watching the video. GNOME hates distractions. Scenario 2 (similar): User is giving presentation in class or conference. Slide, document, or video are on external display, while user is navigating various applications on primary display. User cannot use overview to navigate windows, nor can he launch applications in gnome-shell, without ruining the presentation for the audience by having the slide, document, or video constantly presenting itself in the overview. Possible solution would be to allow windows to be excluded from overview. A poor solution would be to pass this responsibility off to individual apps -- most apps are not core GNOME apps, including relevant applications such as VLC, the LibreOffice suite, etc. GNOME needs to handle this itself.
*** Bug 751617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to erusan from comment #0) > Possible solution would be to allow windows to be excluded from overview. Windows can be excluded from the overview by setting the skip-taskbar hint, but that's not what you are asking for - you are asking for excluding a monitor from the overview (i.e. keep showing its windows normally). See bug 750277 for a possible way to support this.
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