Looks like no one is willing to deal with xawtv and metacity not playing nicely wrt fullscreen mode. Metacity insists on putting a title bar in the way. xawtv attempts to address these issues with the wm-off-by option, which works by shifting the window on the desktop until the title bar isn't showing. But the window is placed at 0,0, and moving it up to get rid of the title bar would put the title bar off the desktop. Metacity refuses to do this. Here's a workaround. If a wm-off-by setting is negative, it moves the viewport forward instead of the window backward. Thus the window is never moved off the edge of the desktop. b.c.
--- x11/xt.c.orig 2003-02-07 01:03:03.000000000 -0800 +++ x11/xt.c 2003-02-07 01:06:38.000000000 -0800 @@ -961,7 +961,9 @@ warp_pointer = 1; XWarpPointer(dpy, None, RootWindowOfScreen(XtScreen(tv)), 0, 0, 0, 0, vp_width/2, vp_height/2); - XF86VidModeSetViewPort(dpy,XDefaultScreen(dpy),0,0); + XF86VidModeSetViewPort(dpy,XDefaultScreen(dpy), + fs_xoff<0?-fs_xoff:0, + fs_yoff<0?-fs_yoff:0); } } #endif @@ -999,8 +1001,8 @@ XtNheightInc, 1, NULL); XtVaSetValues(app_shell, - XtNx, (vp_x & 0xfffc) + fs_xoff, - XtNy, vp_y + fs_yoff, + XtNx, (vp_x & 0xfffc) + (fs_xoff<0?0:fs_xoff), + XtNy, vp_y + (fs_yoff<0?0:fs_yoff), XtNwidth, vp_width, XtNheight, vp_height, NULL);
