Or are you talking about Windows 8 apps being "responsive" in some sense?
So if anyone made a Tiling Window Manager that isolates how much an application can control, and gets rid of this config it to make it work mentality, they would have me sold. I love having multiple desktops on Linux, one feature that Windows lacks to this day. Their tiling, although incomplete, it works for me and what I do.
Sorry if I offended anyone, I'm not a tiling guru, though I'd love to be. I just prefer applications that "just work" without too much effort on the end-users part, as opposed to getting in the way of the end-user.
- in FF, launch a new window, showing a fraction of the frame.
- in Chrome, replace the current window, showing a fraction of the frame.
In both cases, if I want to see the uncropped video, I have to manually switch to Full mode. I know there are hooks[0] to change this behavior to automatically launch a floating window (I don't use YouTube enough to bother), but I don't think there's a way to get the behavior GP described. Is there?
[0] http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-Ma...
If you fullscreen Firefox, it will simply hide UI elements, not take up the entire screen. It is not xmonads responsibility to automatically scale applications.