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Title: Crashing to Windowed Mode Post by: pythonusr on January 21, 2008, 09:30:01 AM I'll just be randomly playing OpenArena (local game) and it'll crash to the windowed mode, forcing me to use CTRL+ALT+F2 and use sudo reboot to reboot the computer.
I realize there's a "fix" online, which was to alt+tab to the window and bring up the console, but I can't even alt+tab to the window, much less open the console. How can I fix this? EDIT: Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Title: Re: Crashing to Windowed Mode Post by: compugeek32 on January 29, 2008, 01:01:34 AM Here's a workaround that I use to avoid that issue with OpenArena and other fullscreen games on Ubuntu 7.10:
Go to the Visual Effects tab and select None. This workaround turns off all desktop effects, but at least prevents OpenArena from going to windowed mode in such a way ============ EDIT (02.07.2008): I figured out myself that the effects weren't the actual cause. If you have your screensaver set to run after being "idle" (or in this case, Playing OpenArena) for a certain amount of time, the screensaver will run, bringing OpenArena down to windowed mode Try disabling your screensaver by going to System > Preferences > screensaver and uncheck "Activate screensaver when computer is idle" and see if that takes care of your problem. It worked for me |