"Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Thomas Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:17:21AM +0000, Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson wrote:
>>> When I switch pages with WoW in fullscreen mode, and switch back, WoW
>>> seems "dead".  That is, it doesn't update the screen (whatever was
>>> left there is still on) and doesn't seem to respond to events.  There
>>> is no problem with WoW in windowed mode.
>>
>> Do you mean pages or desks here?  There is a difference in how the windows
>> are managed.
>
> I mean pages, as in "switch pages" above.  Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
>
>>> Is there something I can do to find out what is causing this?  I
>>> suspect wine rather than fvwm, but would like to be certain.  There
>>> was never any problem when switching desktops with Gnome or KDE.
>>
>> You say it's OK in "windowed mode" (what is this?)  You could use xev on the
>> window and watch the output for the events it receives -- although ISTR with
>> wine, if you haven't told it to allow the window manager to handle the
>> windows, it's pretty much an open playing-field.
>
> Windowed mode is when WoW isn't fullscreen and Fvwm is drawing a
> border around it.  Wine is currently set to allow the window manager
> to handle and draw borders around the window.
>
> A thought: Find out what wine does when a window is supposed to be
> fullscreen and fix it.
>
> Some points in the right direction will be appreciated.
>
> After playing with xev it seems wine is wrestling the control off the
> window manager (caveat lector: I'm not an expert in X).

Most likely, WoW is going into Overrideredirect mode when it goes
full screen.

Search the Fvwm Man page using "overrideredirect" as a keyword to
see the options you have.

Use it as a Google search term along with Fvwm to see what happened
with Vnc...

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