Fullscreen break on multiple monitors

[Hydro8]

Hi

I have three screens at my work. Is it possible to have a setting to choose if break screen take only one screen or every screens ?
Or is it too much ?

Thank !

[roldanjr]

Is it occupying the whole three screens on break?

[Hydro8]

The timer is on the right screen :

So the break is full screen for the right screen :

What will be awesome is to be able to have full screen break on all screen and the timer on middle screen. Don't know if it's possible and easy to implement ?

[roldanjr]

It's really hard to tell. I think it is possible to occupy all screen but programmatically setting the timer on the middle of the all the screens is not doable.

[roldanjr]

@sekwah41 do you use multiple screens? Maybe you could help us if you do.

Here I found Electron Screen API but I can't implement it because I only used one.

Maybe you have an idea too? Thank you.

[sekwah41]

Yea ive got 4 :)

The best method I can think of for this as its a react application would be to use the timer component and make x number of windows for the extra screens and figure out which one the application is currently on.

Or a more robust method would be to not turn the normal program into one of the windows and open new timeout timers over all the screens which are communicated with via sending messages over the ipc rather than having a timer for every single one.

As long as you move the window within the display before full screening it then it should go to the right display :)

Ive got a lot of projects to work on atm though I can take a look at it when I get a moment.

[sekwah41]

The easiest way to achieve this would be to add a second router that can swap out the whole page with one that is only a timer for breaks and add timer pulses to the ipc. The new approach would be fine to use even in single desktop mode if wanted and would just replace the code for the fullscreen event.

I'm still learning react so it may be a bit fiddly or may need some cleanup from you. I'll see if I get any time tonight to try to make it.

[roldanjr]

Thanks for the effort @sekwah41 .

[sekwah41]

Sorry that ive vanished on this. I was relatively new to react and have been balancing my job and some personal work.

So the best way I thought of doing this was to make a new page on the top-level router and use that for the extra displays to be made for the other screens. Ive partially implemented it but when I get some time I'll try to finish it off :)

[roldanjr]

No worries @sekwah41 . It's okay I understand.

By the way, I've restructured the app architecture to be more future proof.

I need to change it to a monorepo style using Lerna and Yarn Workspaces so that there's a clear separation of concerns between renderer and main process and also makes it easier for code sharing between those processes.

Please check it out as soon as you can. Thank you friend.

[diegonz]

Hello, I think that not taking all screens somewhat breaks the purpose of full screen breaks.

For example, if I'm doing web development I usually have several open apps spread around all available screens, which in break time translates to my main window (editor, terminal) "having a break " but all remaining screens showing the web browser, developer tools pane, etc.

[sekwah41]

I will take a look into this once we've merged the currently outstanding PR's. It's also been raised more recently as part of #207 and #180.

I've ended up writing some of my own apps since this issue was originally raised and have a better understanding of electron so likely can get it all sorted this time. Just need to schedule the time between my other projects though if anyone else wants to pick it up before I get to it they are more than welcome ❤️