Package: sopwith Version: 1.8.4-6 Severity: normal Hi! Sopwith suffers from SDL1 bugs that make it unplayable on any monitor-attached machine I currently own: * destroys xrandr settings (sets all monitors to mirror mode, landscaped, at a silly resolution) * places its display solely on my right _vertical_ monitor, despite that one not being set as primary. It doesn't even use that blasted mirror mode it itself forces at exit! * on my both laptops and phone, sopwith puts its display as a tiny image at the center of black screen
SDL1 has been abandoned years ago, and still lives in the world of CRT, when monitors could be set to an arbitrary resolution, GPUs sucked, and attaching more than one monitor was a rare case that required non-standard hardware (two graphics cards, when computers usually had one AGP/whatever slot). SDL's upstream understandably refuses to fix this, telling people to switch to SDL2 instead. This requires some porting, which is more of a task for upstream rather than you -- but, I see that sopwith has a GTK port; perhaps that one could work on modern monitors? Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-debug-00034-g57a36aaa2c3f (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages sopwith depends on: ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1 sopwith recommends no packages. sopwith suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
