Folks,
I run dualhead, either 2x1920x1200 or lowresx1080P. Invariable fedora games try to start up full screen and completely mess up my displays. Sometimes it is quite a challenge to get back in to a state where I can restore my settings without logging out and logging back in.
Please make your games start in windowed mode. Let the user choose later to go fullscreen. Or make your came properly save the xrandr state and restore it, including dual head. Don't EVER go to mirror mode.
Two sample great games that just don't do full screen dual head smart:
extremetuxracer angry dwarves
Oh, and can't full screen be just one head? The video players can do it. How about the games?
Thanks guys!
Keep the great games coming.
2009/11/2 Joel jdy@cryregarder.com:
Folks,
I run dualhead, either 2x1920x1200 or lowresx1080P. Invariable fedora games try to start up full screen and completely mess up my displays. Sometimes it is quite a challenge to get back in to a state where I can restore my settings without logging out and logging back in.
I had the same problem with nvidia binary drivers and twinview; it went away editing xorg.conf, adding the resolution needed by the game to MetaModes, ie MetaModes "1680x1050, 1680x1050; NULL, 1024x768" to have the game requesting 1024x768 on the right screen.
Guido Grazioli <guido.grazioli@...> writes:
I had the same problem with nvidia binary drivers and twinview; it went away editing xorg.conf, adding the resolution needed by the game to MetaModes, ie MetaModes "1680x1050, 1680x1050; NULL, 1024x768"
Yuck. I can work around it also. My approach:
1. Start the game 2. Figure out how to get back to normal X which varies depending on how badly the game dorks up the display 3. Edit the game's config file with my desired gui mode
This process is so annoying that I rarely am willing to try games in linux. This is probably a good thing for my time management.