How to make app full screen with border

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Electronic Part

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Jan 5, 2020, 2:27:33 AM1/5/20
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Hello,

I have an app that i want to start it full screen. I checked some solution but they all delete the border.
I used following command. As i said i will lose my border 

 Window.fullscreen = 'auto' 


Can you please tell me a way to do that? Thanks

Elliot Garbus

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Jan 5, 2020, 10:42:31 AM1/5/20
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Put this at the very top of your main file.

 

from kivy.config import Config
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')

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Electronic Part

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Jan 5, 2020, 11:55:01 PM1/5/20
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Thanks for the answer. That is not working. Should i put this in the specific place. I mean in build function or something else?

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Elliot Garbus

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Jan 6, 2020, 12:03:49 AM1/6/20
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At the very top of your main file

 

 

 

Electronic Part

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Jan 6, 2020, 12:21:22 AM1/6/20
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This is how my app looks. As you see it is full screen but on button left and also i don't have any windows border
image.png

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Electronic Part

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Jan 6, 2020, 12:29:18 AM1/6/20
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I used these commands
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
Config.write()
Elliot Garbus
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Jan 6, 2020, 12:32:50 AM1/6/20
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Show your code.  It must be on the top of the first file.  The Config.write() is not necessary.  
What platform are you on?  (FWIW: I can’t see 
 
 
 
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I used these commands
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
Config.write()
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 AM Electronic Part <hsiel...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is how my app looks. As you see it is full screen but on button left and also i don't have any windows border
Electronic Part
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Jan 6, 2020, 12:43:23 AM1/6/20
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For some reason i can't take screen shot. How can i get be to my last configuration. This is awful 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 'auto')
    Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
    # Config.write()
    my_app = MyMainApp()
    my_app.run()


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Elliot Garbus
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Jan 6, 2020, 12:44:59 AM1/6/20
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Put  the code at the top of the file before you import kivy. 

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On Jan 5, 2020, at 10:43 PM, Electronic Part <hsiel...@gmail.com> wrote:


For some reason i can't take screen shot. How can i get be to my last configuration. This is awful 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 'auto')
    Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
    # Config.write()
    my_app = MyMainApp()
    my_app.run()

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Show your code.  It must be on the top of the first file.  The Config.write() is not necessary.  
What platform are you on?  (FWIW: I can’t see 
 
 
 
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I used these commands
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
Config.write()
 
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 AM Electronic Part <hsiel...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is how my app looks. As you see it is full screen but on button left and also i don't have any windows border
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Electronic Part
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Jan 6, 2020, 12:47:48 AM1/6/20
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Again i got the same thing. I changed the config. how get back to the original kivy config


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Electronic Part
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Jan 6, 2020, 2:07:46 AM1/6/20
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Please just tell me how back to original kivy windows size
Elliot Garbus
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To go back to to the original config:
 
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'visible')
Config.write()

Or delete the config.ini file.
https://kivy.org/doc/stable/guide/config.html#configure-kivy
Elliot Garbus
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Jan 6, 2020, 3:28:52 PM1/6/20
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Here is a quick example.  This creates a fullscreen window, pressing the button alternates between fullscreen and a 600 x 600 window.


from kivy.config import Config
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.core.window import Window, WindowBase

kv = """
BoxLayout:
    orientation: 'vertical'
    Label: 
        text:'Change Window Size Test'
    Button:
        text: 'Change Size'
        on_release: app.change_window_size()
"""


class FullScreenApp(App):
    fullsize = 0

    def build(self):
        return Builder.load_string(kv)

    def on_start(self):
        self.fullsize = Window.size

    def change_window_size(self):
        if self.fullsize == Window.size:
            Window.size = (600, 600)
        else:
            Window.size = self.fullsize


FullScreenApp().run()
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Electronic Part
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Jan 7, 2020, 12:37:39 AM1/7/20
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I really appreciate your help. Just one more question. When i make screen full size by this command Window.size = (1366, 768), my fullsize window is not at the middle or does not fit the screen as you can see in the image. I got back to original setting by  Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'visible') and i used 

 Window.size = (1366, 768). the window is full size just its position is not true. Any idea how i can fix this? Thanks

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Electronic Part
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Jan 7, 2020, 12:38:29 AM1/7/20
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Here is the screenshot 
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Elliot Garbus
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To position your full-size window:
 
Window.left = 0
Window.top = 23
 
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Here is the screenshot 
Electronic Part
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Jan 7, 2020, 6:51:35 AM1/7/20
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Thank you so much, I will mark it as completed


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Electronic Part
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Jan 8, 2020, 2:01:39 AM1/8/20
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I have one more problem regarding this question. I don't want to cover lower band. this is what i mean. In one of images i have took, kivy cover lower band and in the other one not because i resize the window manually. Could you tell me how uncover lower band without resizing ?

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Elliot Garbus
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Jan 8, 2020, 2:32:10 PM1/8/20
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Could you tell me how uncover lower band without resizing ?
I’m not sure that I understand your question.  On Windows10 the task bar, has a number of settings.  If the task bar is set to visible, when I go full screen, the taskbar is not covered.  
 
Kivy reports the task bar as 40pixels high.  If you want to uncover the bottom of the screen, reduce the height of the window.
 
I wrote a tool to explore window sizes, and to save and restore the size of the kivy window on exit and start.  This might help.  It provides an interactive view of the window size and position.
https://github.com/ElliotGarbus/KivyWindowSize
 
 
 
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I have one more problem regarding this question. I don't want to cover lower band. this is what i mean. In one of images i have took, kivy cover lower band and in the other one not because i resize the window manually. Could you tell me how uncover lower band without resizing ?
 
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Electronic Part
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I faced another issue once i run my app on another system. Once i tried it on another system i got smaller windows (it kept ratio of the old  window. In another words, did not update itself with new screen size )


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Electronic Part
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Feb 17, 2020, 6:01:27 AM2/17/20
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By the way, the screen size in the old system was
Window.size = (1366, 768)
Just want windows size adapt itself with any screen size

Best Regards
Elliot Garbus
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Feb 17, 2020, 8:28:45 AM2/17/20
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I would suggest the following:
  • Set the screen to full size
  • Read the window size
  • Reduce the height of the window by 40 pixels. (to reveal the menu bar)
  • Set the window size
Electronic Part
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Got it. Thanks


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