

The “easy” Linux distributions (ie *ubuntu *=X, K, -, and other mutations) feel less geeky than the usual windowshack solutions, like this script. It's also safer, much more reliable and faster. It matches with Houdini’s native colour scheme, thus the menubar at the top doesn’t feel like an interrogation lamp. In comparison customizing the other two OS feel extremely restrictive, but at least after decades of user requests macOS finally ships with an optional Dark Mode. In the System Settings we can also bind shortcuts to any UI actions like this. On Linux it’s easy to go fullscreen, the KDE environment offers it in the titlebar’s right click menu. I highly recommend to use Linux for work, here is what I wrote for 3D Artist mag in a Houdini tips article: FULLSCREEN MODE Usually a work session in Houdini takes a while, so in most of the time we don’t need the interface elements of the operating system. That said there are plenty of games that will not suffer from it at all while other do.The funny thing is that there are free and open source alternatives which are far ahead in terms of UI/UX. IGNORE the low quality graphic I was just testing the tutorial and see if it runs at all.

Here is an example screenshot from Dawn of War 3. It also block some button/info on the bottom which makes it impossible to play certain games that may depend on the area behind the task bar. Instead it will treat the taskbar as click for taskbar instead of the fullscreen. Now the issue is that the windows task bar that normally would disappear if I have a fullscreen application running will NOT hide. But I strongly suspect it has to do with my old PC and how it interact with windows 10/current nvidia driver. Alt+tab just move the window down and right as expect then back to the same issue again. Restart might resolve the issue for a little while before coming back. The problem started and there seem to be no sure fire way to fix this. Mostly later because I can alt+tab and look up meta-game info when necessary.Įver since the windows 10 update like 3 or 4 weeks ago. They are almost always in fullscreen or windowed fullscreen.
