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Bug 1059

Summary: No fullscreen if no reparenting wm
Product: SDL Reporter: David Demelier <demelier.david>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: critical    
Priority: P2 CC: jspradlin
Version: 1.2.14   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   

Description David Demelier 2010-09-27 10:23:31 UTC 
Since the version 1.2.14 we can't use the fullscreen mode with SDL based application if the Window manager does not reparent.

This can be tested with teeworlds, wormux, zsnes with cwm, dwm, awesome.

It's a famous bug now, and developers says that the problematic wm needs to reparent, things that they don't want.
Comment 1 Jen Spradlin 2011-04-12 20:13:11 UTC 
Thank you for your bug report!

We're busy working on getting SDL 1.3 ready for a high quality release, and want to make sure as many things are fixed there as possible.
Could you check to see if your bug is resolved by the latest SDL 1.3 snapshot?
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

Thanks!
Comment 2 David Demelier 2011-04-13 14:14:54 UTC 
I can't compile it on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64. It fails when trying to compile the joystick code :

libtool: compile:  gcc -g -O3 -I./include -mmmx -msse -msse2 
-fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/X11R6/include -DHAVE_USBHID_H -DUSBHID_NEW 
-D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -MMD -MT build/SDL_sysjoystick.lo -c 
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
build/.libs/SDL_sysjoystick.o
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c: In function 'SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate':
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:465: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:489: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:499: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:507: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c: In function 'report_alloc':
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:588: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
src/joystick/bsd/SDL_sysjoystick.c:588: error: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
gmake: *** [build/SDL_sysjoystick.lo] Error 1

Cheers,
Comment 3 David Demelier 2011-04-18 23:31:51 UTC 
I commented out the joystick code to test a simple fullscreen program and it works!
Comment 4 Ryan C. Gordon 2011-12-30 00:54:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I commented out the joystick code to test a simple fullscreen program and it
> works!

Great!

We fixed that FreeBSD joystick code recently, too.  :)

--ryan.