2008/9/3 T.J. Duchene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It sounds like you aren't actually changing resolutions when you start the > game up. Your window manager of choice (Metacity/Gnome, kwin/KDE - whatever > simply locates the window center screen at the specified resolution. > As far as I have ever seen or heard, automatic mode switching for full > screen applications is usually left to the application or windowing > environment to decide. I've never seen X automatically switch modes, unless > it is told to do so, or the mode you ask for fails. I think the reasoning > behind this is to protect your hardware. Granted, this doesn't help much.
The applications I'm using are requesting fullscreen mode. For instance, using -f with pingus causes it to request fullscreen. I can also write a simple SDL test program to request fullscreen mode at an arbitrary resolution. If I then run this with 640x480, a rectangle of this size is available for drawing the centre of the screen, and the rest of the screen is black. Pingus was maybe a pathological example because frozen-bubble for instance also displays this behaviour of displaying in a tiny box in the centre, with black borders. I remember before when I had problems with SDL programs and fullscreen mode, the problem was always that the right modes weren't defined in xorg.conf. But this time they are, and for some reason X doesn't accept their existence. > What desktop environment are you using? I am using GNOME. Thanks for the response - maybe this will shed a little more light on it... -- David Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
