[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#825917: Bug#825917: cinnamon: switching dosbox to fullscreen messes up display settings

[Maximiliano Curia]

Control: reassign -1 dosbox
Control: merge -1 539740
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

¡Hola Robert!

El 2016-05-31 a las 13:00 +0200, Robert Hackbauer escribió:
> Package: cinnamon 
> Version: 3.0.2-2 
> Severity: normal

> i have a dual monitor setup with different resolutions. When switching dosbox 
> or any other software (mostly games) to fullscreen mode, the display settings 
> are messed up after exiting or switching back to window mode. I have to go to 
> the display settings and correct it every time.

> Originally monitor 1 resolution is 1920x1080, monitor 2 is 1600x900 and placed 
> on the right. After the Fullscreen switch monitor 1 is changed to 1440x900 and 
> both monitor areas are moved to the same display area.

This is a dosbox issue. The only way that cinnamon could prevent this 
would be to make sure that the display settings are still active when you 
close an appliction. Then let's say that you call xrandr in a terminal to 
set you monitors in mirror, it wouldn't be right if cinnamon changed that back 
to whatever you had before when you close the terminal.

From your description it looks as if whatever dosbox is storing to revert the 
change on exit is incomplete.

There is an old bug already reported to dosbox about this, I'm merging this 
one into the old one.

Happy hacking,
-- 
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder,
but when you do it blows your whole leg off."
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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