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. > > > -- > ----%<----------%<---- > Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper > bash$ :(){ :|:&};: > Numbers 6:24-26 > -- ~ Anh Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'v' Bachelors of Computer Engineering at UIUC // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ ... Linux ... ain't it cool?