Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Fullscreen issues

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,

 Perhaps we ought to test it on Windows and Mac to see if there are
> similar problems.


I've built it for Windows and so far it's worked fine.  I have a
work-supplied Dell Windows laptop with a docking station setup.  The native
resolution of the laptop is 1280x800, and the docking setup has a 1280x1024
flat panel.  With the laptop alone, tuxmath runs fullscreen at 1280x800 even
if I turn the resolution down to 800x600, and it goes back properly to
1280x800 on exit.  With the machine docked, it correctly uses 1280x1024 on
the desktop display.  The laptop's monitor is not visible when it is docked.

On my Debian machine, I get the same problem you guys have noted if I use
KDE's gui widget to set the resolution down to 800x600 before starting
tuxmath (in my case, the display is frozen, but I can fix things up by
switching to another TTY and killing the tuxmath process).  fwiw, if I use
Ctrl-Alt-+ to change the "resolution", tuxmath -f works fine.

I wonder if the difference is that X always tries to use the highest
resolution listed in Xorg.conf, if the monitor will support it - in other
words, when we set it to something lower, we also forbid it to use anything
higher.

At any rate, this looks like something to post to the SDL mailing list.  I
need to re-subscribe since I changed my email, anyway, so I'll post it
tomorrow.

David

David