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Thread: unable to full screen swing form on fedora

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    Default unable to full screen swing form on fedora

    Hi,

    I want to make swing form full screen even on taskbar on linux machine. But after trying so hard unable to achieve it.
    I am using fedora as operationg system.
    Below i am giving you my swing code. but whenever i run this file form comes up on the screen and waits for a second and it goes in background.
    I unable to understand why this is happening. so please help me to solve this problem.

    i am using linux OS Fedora 64 bit.

    -------------------------------------------------------------

    public class ThankYou {

    JFrame f;
    JTextArea nameField;
    JLabel lable;
    String str;

    public ThankYou() throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, UnsupportedLookAndFeelException, IOException {
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAn dFeelClassName());
    String mystr=Readxml();
    f=new JFrame();

    nameField = new JTextArea(str);//value of str is Thank You
    nameField.setBounds(450,450,650,60);
    nameField.setForeground(new Color(6,42,120));
    nameField.setFont(new Font("Caladea", Font.BOLD, 60));
    nameField.setOpaque(false);
    nameField.setEditable(false);

    BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("imageTMB.jpg"));
    lable=new JLabel(new ImageIcon(image));
    lable.setLayout(null );

    lable.add(nameField);
    f.add(lable);
    f.setResizable(false);
    f.setUndecorated(true);
    f.validate();
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(). getDefaultScreenDevice().setFullScreenWindow(f);
    f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public String Readxml()
    {
    try{

    DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = docBuilder.parse (new File("File.xml"));
    doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize ();
    NodeList listOfPersons = doc.getElementsByTagName("Format");

    Node FormatNode = listOfPersons.item(0);
    Element firstPersonElement = (Element)FormatNode;

    NodeList firstNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("ThankYou" );
    Element firstNameElement = (Element)firstNameList.item(0);

    NodeList textFNList = firstNameElement.getChildNodes();
    strNode)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();



    }
    catch(SAXParseException err){
    System.out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line "
    + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ());
    System.out.println(" " + err.getMessage ());

    }catch (SAXException e) {
    Exception x = e.getException ();
    ((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace ();

    }catch (Throwable t) {
    t.printStackTrace ();
    }


    return str;

    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, UnsupportedLookAndFeelException {
    new ThankYou();

    }

    }


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    Default Re: unable to full screen swing form on fedora

    Welcome to the Forum! Please read this topic to learn how to post code correctly and other useful tips for newcomers.

    Please post your code correctly per the above link. It's difficult to read as it is currently posted.

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