Gnome Panel overlapps Adobe Reader (acroread) in fullscreen mode

Confirming in acroread 7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1 . This is almost certainly a bug that will have to be fixed by Adobe and is probably because a window manager hint isn't being set properly on the window as many other programs (evince, totem, xine-ui, SDL games like rrootage) get this right.

In metacity the results are as described in the bug, in compiz the window is on top but you can see the window's border and repeatedly switching between normal and fullscreen leads to "fullscreen" being displayed with it's top left hand corner starting in the centre of the screen.

how responsive is adobe ?- can we convince them to fix this bug. anyhow- in breezy there where no problems with acroread. is the panel different handled in 2.14 ? this bug stops me to use gnome at work as I need to give presentation on regular basis.

you can fix this problem by binding a key in "keyboard shortcuts" in the system/preferences to "toggle fullscreen mode". I bound the key "alt-l" to it.
Then do:
open your pdf in acroread. press ctrl-l for fullscreen-mode in acroread and then press alt-l for to "toggle to fullscreen" --> the gnome-panel dissapears :-)
anyhow this is just a hack - we should inform adobe about the problem.

If I start KWin inside Gnome with

kwin --replace

I can view PDF documents in fullscreen with the Adobe Reader from Dapper repositories. So maybe it's a problem with Metacity?

The workaround given by gebi works great, thanks! This bug was preventing from using Gnome for my talks...

In another bug report there was a patch for Metacity which solves the panel problem. I can't remember the exact bug report number, but please patch Metacity and release it as an update.

Otherwise Dapper is not business ready in my eyes if there can't be shown PDF's in fullscreen. And a hack which has to be done by users can't be a solution for an enterprise distribution...

Fixed in present releases.