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      • KenedaK Offline
        Keneda @Pulsar33
        last edited by Keneda

        @pulsar33
        If you don't see it it's because your scaling is not set small enough.
        Use uttt to change it.
        screenshot20210911_191206610.png

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        • Pulsar33P Offline
          Pulsar33 @Pulsar33
          last edited by Pulsar33

          @Keneda : Arggg !
          @pulsar33 said in Windowed and Staged:

          Is there a way to switch dynamically (script or something like this) between Windowed Mode and Staged Mode without using UTTT ?

          Advertisement in OpenStore concerning UTTT is frightening ... I wanted to bypass this solution. Can't I switch myself some variable somewhere ? Moreover, I would like to change it programmatically by my own code according to what I launch.
          Good evening
          Pulsar33

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          • KenedaK Offline
            Keneda @Pulsar33
            last edited by Keneda

            @pulsar33
            Using UTTT to change scaling will not break your device.

            The "thing" with UTTT is that you can make all system files read/write, and doing so you can do good, or very bad, things, but appart from that, that's only advanced options... Scaling is part of those harmless advanced options.

            You can break the same your device using only terminal app...

            In fact any app that has full access to your device (unconfined apps) could have the same warning, but terminal don't have it because it's an ubport app, UTTT is not, so it has it...

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            • Pulsar33P Offline
              Pulsar33 @Keneda
              last edited by

              @keneda Ok, I understand your comments, thank you. I will think about that to give a try. But switching manually is not what I hoped to do.

              BR
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              • KenedaK Offline
                Keneda @Pulsar33
                last edited by

                @pulsar33 said in Windowed and Staged:

                I would be happy to know how to make the toggle visible

                I only tried to help you about this.
                Now i'm sure you can change scalling using terminal, but we have UTTT for this.

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                • Pulsar33P Offline
                  Pulsar33
                  last edited by

                  Hello
                  What I'm looking for existed in the past, but this key isn't available anymore :

                  #for Windowed mode:
                  gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 usage-mode Windowed
                  #for Staged mode:
                  gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 usage-mode Staged
                  

                  I listed all the "schemas" but didn't find something relevant ...
                  If you know it, please tell me.
                  BR
                  Pulsar33

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                  • BollyB Offline
                    Bolly @Pulsar33
                    last edited by

                    @pulsar33 said in Windowed and Staged:

                    I listed all the "schemas" but didn't find something relevant ...
                    If you know it, please tell me.
                    BR

                    You can look in the UTT code, there you will find how it is done.

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                    • K Offline
                      kugiigi @Pulsar33
                      last edited by

                      @pulsar33 said in Windowed and Staged:

                      gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 usage-mode Windowed

                      I'm pretty sure those will still work unless you device is already on 20.04.

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                      • BollyB Offline
                        Bolly @kugiigi
                        last edited by

                        @kugiigi said in Windowed and Staged:

                        @pulsar33 said in Windowed and Staged:

                        gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 usage-mode Windowed

                        I'm pretty sure those will still work unless you device is already on 20.04.

                        Yes, it's working.

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                        • Pulsar33P Offline
                          Pulsar33 @Bolly
                          last edited by Pulsar33

                          @bolly @kugiigi Yesss ! Thank you very much !
                          Having look at the code of UTTT as suggested, I had seen the key and didn't understand why I had the answer :
                          The schema "com.canonical.Unity8" doesn't exists
                          This was why I told you "but this key isn't available anymore" above.

                          After you said that it was working, I understood my mistake :
                          I was issuing the command in LXTerminal running inside the Libertine container, and there it doesn't work. You're right, if I type the command outside the Libertine container, it works ! Great !

                          I'm now facing some other problems with the Windowed mode but these are commented in other threads.

                          BR
                          Pulsar33

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                          • Pulsar33P Offline
                            Pulsar33
                            last edited by Pulsar33

                            One more tip, if you don't want to install UTTT :
                            When you see the picture above, you may usefully use this command

                            gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 launcher-width 6
                            

                            Then you get this below (minimal launcher width)
                            BR
                            Pulsar33
                            screenshot20210913_155807460.png

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                            • Pulsar33P Offline
                              Pulsar33
                              last edited by

                              And the better tip, if you want to hide automatically the launcher :

                              gsettings set com.canonical.Unity8 autohide-launcher true
                              

                              screenshot20210914_161117874.png

                              Have fun !
                              Pulsar33

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                              • K Offline
                                kugiigi @Pulsar33
                                last edited by

                                @pulsar33 This is actually in the settings app but it's hidden on small screen for some strange reasons. I have an open PR to just show it in all devices.

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                                • KenedaK Offline
                                  Keneda @kugiigi
                                  last edited by

                                  @kugiigi
                                  It is in UTTT also, along with launcher scaling.

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