On Saturday Aug 10 2002 at 01:49:15PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:56:31PM +0200, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Without anyone here being able to run xawtv, I can only suggest
> that you contact tha xawtv developers and prod them to debug the
> problem. Chances are very good that it's an xawtv problem anyway.
> Most multimedia player authors don't seem to know how to program a
> good X applications :-)
>
For what it's worth: motv (the Motif version of xawtv) on fvwm 2.4.6
with NoPPosition works like a charm. No problems with full screen mode.
RH.
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