I'm trying to write an application that runs kivy at full screen. But these are my issues:
1) When I run the command:
#Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 1)
Then kivy appears to go full time, but the window has a lot of black spaces around the background image. Even if I elongate the image, kivy just cuts the image when showing it.
2) When I run this command to set the window size to the size of my screen:
Config.set('graphics', 'width', '1366')
Config.set('graphics', 'height', '768')
This way actually gives me a better result than full screen, but kivy returns a height parameter of only 715 instead of the 768, which is the value I told kivy to use (as you can see in the Config.set() function above).
My screen resolution is 1366x768
How can I solve this issue and make my kivy app go real full screen?
Thank you very much
Try
from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.fullscreen = True
Do this before you App.run()
method, and it should switch to fullscreen mode.
Cheers
Had a similar problem. Using the 'auto' option got rid of the bands for me.
Window.fullscreen = 'auto'
Quote from Kivy Configuration Object documentation: "If set to auto, your current display’s resolution will be used instead. This is most likely what you want."
I just want to complement:
from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.size = (1366, 768)
Window.fullscreen = True
this works for me:
Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 'auto')
Answering lately For those who are still struggling to figure out how to have the true fullscreen. I have managed to get the rid of those black strip by adding Config.set('graphics','window_state'_'maximized'
just after the fullscreen call. the whole code looks like
from kivy.config import Config
# ...
if __name__ == "__main__":
Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 'auto')
Config.set('graphics', 'window_state', 'maximized')
Config.write()
YourApp().run()
I managed to do it as follows:
from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.maximize()