[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12176) Display bug in WinXP client - unable to minimize

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12176 >

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:38:22PM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for pointing that out to me.  BTW - in order to make FC actually
> > leave full screen mode, I had to save changes, exit the client, then reopen
> > the client.  That doesn't seem right to me.  It seems to me that if I tell
> > the GUI to leave full screen, it should do it immediately, or at *least* let
> > me know that my change will not take effect until I restart the GUI (YUCK!).
> 
> It does precisely this on Linux, but on Windows there seems to be a bug
> somewhere, probably inside GTK+.

There are several (but smaller) problems with fullscreen mode on Linux in
BETA. Others have been fixed already. Is it still worth reporting them? Is
there a ticket?

I think this also depends on the Window Manager. I'm using IceWM currently.

Christian

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