One problem I do have is that with the short screen of the netbook (what the suppliers call "wide" screen
) I want to use full screen mode in my applications, (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice etc) and this is generally called up by pressing F11 (on the DellMini it has to be <Fn+F11>), or from the drop down menu under view. Each application is slightly different. <Fn+F11> works exactly the same as the menu option when I am in KDE3.5, but in LXDE I get a lesser response from the <Fn+F11>. It only gives a partly fuller screen, and in OOo, where F11 should produce the Styles menu it does exactly the same, just removing a few pixels from the top of the display. (<Ctrl+Shift+J>) does give the proper full screen.
I don't know too much about the inner workings, but I'm guessing that the system has some sort of universal "full screen" mode and intercepts the F11 code before it gets to the application. I'd prefer the full full screen with a single key rather than have to click drop down menus. Is there some way to disable the system response to F11 and have it passed on to the application?
Added later:
I have just confirmed that a LXDE installation on a computer that recognises F11 alone (i.e without the Fn key), also shows this behaviour, so it's nothing to do with the netbook.