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Bug 514

Summary: Gnome keeps trying to start screensaver when in SDL app in fullscreen
Product: SDL Reporter: Alex Deriziotis <deriziotis>
Component: eventsAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: deriziotis
Version: 1.2.11Keywords: target-1.2.14
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   

Description Alex Deriziotis 2007-11-14 01:35:00 UTC 
I've got a fresh Ubuntustudio 7.10 Gutsy installation, which uses the 1.2.11-9ubuntu2 package.

When playing x-Moto in fullscreen, and the idle-time for the screensaver to kick-in expires, the game snaps out of fullscreen into windowed mode. I can then press alt+enter to go back into fullscreen.

If I disable the screensaver this stops happening.

I've found that the same thing happens on Scorched3D on a vanilla Ubuntu 7.04, but was resolved somewhere in Gutsy, but I couldn't figure out where. Perhaps the Scorched3d developers implemented a fix since I posted on their forums about this.

Someone else has had a similar problem with X-Moto. It went away when he stopped using GNOME. His guess was that a certain GNOME application (the window manager, Metacity, comes to mind) is intercepting key presses for whatever reason, but when an SDL game requests a full-screen window it is no longer able to detect those key presses so it assumes no one is at the keyboard.
Comment 1 Alex Deriziotis 2007-11-14 01:36:07 UTC 
When I say 1.2.11-9ubuntu2 package, I mean the libsdl1.2debian (1.2.11-9ubuntu2) package.
Comment 2 Alex Deriziotis 2007-11-22 06:27:17 UTC 
Same behaviour while playing Trigger fullscreen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/trigger-rally/)
Comment 3 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 15:40:34 UTC 
I think this was a metacity bug back in the days, but we should retest for 1.2.14.

--ryan.
Comment 4 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 16:33:24 UTC 
Tagging this bug with "target-1.2.14" so we can try to resolve it for SDL 1.2.14.

Please note that we may choose to resolve it as WONTFIX. This tag is largely so we have a comprehensive wishlist of bugs to examine for 1.2.14 (and so we can close bugs that we'll never fix, rather than have them live forever in Bugzilla).

--ryan.
Comment 5 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-20 23:26:32 UTC 
I believe this is fixed for SDL 1.3, which has a much better architecture for controlling these kinds of things.
Comment 6 Alex Deriziotis 2009-10-21 06:49:41 UTC 
just tested this on ubuntu karmic w/ libsdl 1.2.13, fixed for me. thanks
Comment 7 Sam Lantinga 2009-10-21 07:35:05 UTC 
Thanks!