One Hundred Papercuts

--windowed option doesn't do anything

Bug #587459 reported by Carey Underwood on 2010-05-30

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	One Hundred Papercuts	Incomplete	Low	Unassigned
	glhack (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: glhack

When launching via "glhack --windowed" as documented in the man page, the glhack window still goes fullscreen. More annoyingly, it does it in a way that can't be easily escaped from (alt-tab doesn't work, etc). Additionally, the game complains of "No write permission to lock /var/games/glhack/perm", which seems to block the startup for 10-15 seconds, which is all the more annoying.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: glhack 1.2-1
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 30 04:21:18 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: glhack

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Carey Underwood (cwillu) wrote on 2010-05-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (813 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2011-06-14:

Thanks for reporting this.

When running "glhack --windowed" in Ubuntu Natty, it also goes fullscreen. The "no write permission"-error is covered in bug 684559, by the way.

Changed in glhack (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
tags:	added: natty

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2015-12-30:

Bug 684559 has now been resolved.

However, it is still the case that glhack 1.2-3 on Ubuntu Xenial seems to ignore the --windowed parameter.

tags:

added: precise trusty wily xenial
removed: lucid natty

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-12-31

Changed in glhack (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote on 2025-02-23:

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