After a whole lot of work setting up my networking, I finally got x forwarding to work from Ubuntu to the 770.

It was quite a feat to get it all running, because I'm running WinXP, running Ubuntu in VMWare, and the 770 ad-hoc networked to XP through a USB wifi card. Getting the VMWare networking and adhoc wireless networking in windows to see each other was a total PITA!

Anyway, now I have it working, but everything comes up in the small window, so you can see the normal hildon interface side and top bars.
Does anyone know if there is a way (no matter how hacky) to get something to run full screen?

Interesting thing is, when i start up a certain app, it says "you are running below our recommended screen size of 800x600, you are running 800x480", so apparently the full screen resolution is reported to the applications.

go for the full hack. run the remote X session in a vnc server session, then vncview back in with scaling to double the size!!!

Try wmctrl, that's what I use for making non-gtk apps fullscreen.
I generally launch it via powerlaunch, and have it set to fullscreen the topmost window with this command:

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b toggle,fullscreen

This way I just tap the power button, and click on "Fullscreen"

ooo good plan.

I actually started on another hack... turns out that while an app is open, all the stuff on the top 60 px is actually the windows title bar (just like a normal desktop window title bar) with extra UI stuff on it. In the theme you can set it to "0" height, and get the full 460 px window height the only catch is that the 'status' icons (battery, net, sound, etc) still show up overlayed on top.

The left bar isnt part of the matchbox theme, but I think those can be removed/hidden too... mucking with the theme is fun

That totally works! thank you so much!
The only thing that didn't work for me was powerlaunch. At the end of the install, app manager tells me it couldnt install, but then the program does seem to be there. It is listed in the 'installed packages' list, and I can run 'powerlaunch' from the teminal.
However, it doesnt seem to run. spits out some errors about something not running...

Anyway, I just uninstalled powerlaunch and added a new main menu item "Toggle Fullscreen" that runs that wmctrl command. Of course the only catch is that once I go fullscreen, I can't see the main app menu to toggle back, but I can either exit the fullscreen application, or hit the 'home' button. Though I noticed in Firefox, the 'home' hardware button does actually cause the broswer to navigate to 'home' instead of popping up that Hildon window. Oh well

Thanks!

What are advantages over 'regular' VNC?