Re: FVWM: xawtv and fullscreen<->window switching

From: Ronald Wahl <Ronald.Wahl_at_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: 05 Aug 2002 20:56:31 +0200

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:49:59 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:37:30PM +0200, Ronald Wahl wrote:
>> I have the following problems with xawtv and fvwm 2.5.2: When I switch
>> into fullscreen mode then the TV screen is partly outside the physical
>> screen, i.e. I have only a half TV screen. In this case I need to move
>> the mouse a bit upward to get the whole TV screen.

> You probably have something like

> Style * NoPPosition

Yes.

> in your config file to formid applications to place their own
> windows. Try disabling that line or use something like

> Style xawtv PPosition

You mean UsePPosition?! This doesn't help. xawtv just switches the
screen resolution and does not recreate the window so the placement is
not the problem I think. With sawfish as WM I had no problems.

> afterwards to override the global style (possibly replace "xawtv"
> with the name, resource or class of the window).

>> The second problem arises when I switch back to "window mode". Then it
>> happens by a chance of ~50% that the window is black. To get it working
>> again in _non-fullscreen_ mode I need to restart xawtv. Switching back
>> from the black window into fullscreen mode works but when I then switch
>> to "window mode" again the window diappears entirely but I can get it
>> back if I use the window list module.
>>
>> It would be nice if someone could fix this strange behavior.

> Lacking the necessary hardware I can't take a look at xawtv
> myself, but this all sounds as if xawtv is doing something wrong.
> Have you asked the xawtv developers about this?

Not yet, since I have this problem since I use fvwm. With sawfish I
did not see this behavior.

Is anyone here on the list who can reproduce this?

ron

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