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 :-)
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sat Aug 10 2002 - 13:20:02 BST