Re: [AD] Fullscreen problems on Linux

["Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a bit too much of a hack... maybe it's best just to be clear
that when we use "real fullscreen" it's using a "legacy" mode according to
Compiz, so you'll need to toggle that checkbox. Not sure where the best
place is to document that.

As far as presenting options to the user, it's probably going to have to be
up to the developer. A good approach may be to allow real fullscreen and
have a checkbox either for legacy or "compiz" or something like that.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: Beoran [mailto:beoran@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: July 8, 2014 9:27 AM
To: Allegro Development
Subject: Re: [AD] Fullscreen problems on Linux

I once read a message on some X related mailing list claiming that
applications shouldn't change screen resolution at all and should use what
we call a "fullscreen window" and upscale instead.
Now i think this is complete nonsense, but apparently there are quite a few
people who do x development who feel that this is the way to go. And I feel
the compiz guys are thinking like that, an are trying to force things in
that way.

Anyway, as a practical solution to this problem, we could probably call
gconftool-2 and inspect, and then turn on that legacy setting. (and turn it
off again after full screen if it was turned off) It's a huge hack, but
compiz is forcing our hand here... :p



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