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Kewal Shah
Asked: 2019-01-14 12:09:39 +0800 CST

Fullscreen not working in Kindle using wine

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I recently installed Amazon Kindle using Wine 3.0 and PlayOnLinux on my Ubuntu 18.04. Everything works perfectly except for the full screen mode. When I press Fn+f11 I see a smaller windowed mode with everything else disappearing as shown below in the image.

buggy full screen mode in Kindle

I want the app to completely occupy my screen (hiding the dock and top bar) when I click on full-screen mode. Is there a way this can be solved?

wine kindle fullscreen window 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After a lot of experimentation, I have found a workaround:

    Instead of going in full screen mode from a maximized window,

    1. Unmaximize (yep, that's a word according to Ubuntu) the window first

    Window options

    1. Now press Fn+f11 or go to View -> Full Screen and you'll get the full screen window as shown below!

    Full Screen Mode

    Note: This is just a workaround and does not solve the problem actually. It is still not possible to go into full screen mode from a maximized window of the app. I hope the bug is resolved in future.

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