Re: [STUMP] Fullscreen apps not working

[malnourite]

These games are almost certainly using SDL, and SDL's
'fullscreen' mode bypasses the WM entirely. There is, as far
as I know of, no way to fix this other than to get the SDL
X11 driver to comply with the standard and use
NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN and let the WM decide how to make it
fill the screen instead of the hackery it uses now.  I
talked to some of the SDL people on IRC about this at one
point and got the distinct impression that they were not
interested in accepting any improvements. But perhaps
someone with a more pressing need and larger reserves of
patience could get a patch through the gates.

If these programs are NOT using SDL, then you need to find
out what toolkit they are using and how it's 'fullscreen'
mode is implemented. 

BTW, the workaround is to avoid using the game's
'fullscreen' mode entirely and just use prefix-F11 to cause
StumpWM to force the window fullscreen (just as it would do
to a NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN window.) This only works if the
window has the SDL_RESIZABLE property set though.

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008, cothrige wrote:
> I am having trouble with certain fullscreen apps on stumpwm.  If I use
> mplayer in fullscreen it is fine, but if I play doom or any game that uses
> a fullscreen mode it isn't.  Instead I get what looks like a corner of a
> window jutting into the screen, covering up a large portion of it.  I can
> sometimes work around this by splitting the frame in some way (hsplit,
> vsplit) before starting the game, but often this just makes the offending
> window block a different part of the screen.
> 
> Any ideas of what may cause something like this, or what may be able to
> fix it?  BTW, in the past I have noticed this behaviour with several versions
> obtained via git, both with sbcl and clisp.  I also just installed the 0.9.0
> version via stumpwm website also with both sbcl and clisp and have had
> the same result.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
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Feb 04 2008,
John Moore Liles