On 06-Feb-2002 xOr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:44:58AM -0600, Anh Lai wrote: >> Does anyone have this problem: >> when playing quake3 fullscreen, if someone messages me in gaim, the gaim >> messege window appears overlayed in my game view. Nothing freezes, but >> it's annoying that i must exit quake3 and quit gaim so it doesnt happen. >> Basically, when playing, i see a messege window appear in game play. >> >> This _only_ happens in Blackbox, and have run E alone, and KDE with >> nothing similar to this happening. Blackbox versions: 0.62.1, and >> current CVS pull of today. And Xfree-4.2 just in case it's Xfree. > > Does blackbox know when a window is going into 'fullscreen mode'? If it > just didn't raise any non-fullscreen windows above fullscreen windows, > then this wouldn't be a problem any longer. Also, that would/should fix > the bug with autoraise and fullscreen SDL applications. >
On this topic (forgive me I am not a gamer and generally do not own cool enough hardware to run most games) what does 'fullscreen mode' mean? Is this something like DGA? I suspect I will have to track down the source and look.
