I just ran mplayer fullscreen using SDL output mode. It reproduces the
same thing. So it seems that creation of new child windows maybe the
culprit.
... On 02/07/02, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper decided to write ...
> Um. I've of course deleted the original message, but I believe the
> message started along the lines of "how come gaim raises itself above
> quake...", etc. It seems to me that the correct and simplest solution
> to this is to tell gaim to stop XRaiseWindow'ing itself to the top
> whenever it feels like it (Conversations | IM Window -> "Raise windows
> on events").... Since quake isn't setting anything that tells window
> managers to not allow other windows to overlay it, I don't think this is
> the window manager's job....
>
> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 16:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On 06-Feb-2002 Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 15:17, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > Not sure of the complete technical breakdown in terms of what it means
> > > to Blackbox, but in essence "Fullscreen" items take over the complete
> > > display (no decoration of any kind). I don't believe this requires
> > > DGA. If it would help, I could whip up a really minor fullscreen SDL
> > > application (any video card should be able to run it) for testing with.
> > >
> > > Jamin W. Collins
> >
> > hmmmmm, on initial reading of the SDL code they simply raise the window to the
> > top and make it cover the whole screen. Near as I can see they set no special
> > hint or flag letting the wm know this.
> >
> > Best thing blackbox could do at that point would be refusing to raise the
> > dialog if the parent was not visible. But then that raises other issues. Not
> > sure what the right approach is here.
> >
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> Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
> bash$ :(){ :|:&};:
> Numbers 6:24-26
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