"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...
