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debazthed

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Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] Battle for Wesnoth fullscreen issues

Hello everyone,

I have the following annoying issue with battle for wesnoth:

Whenever the game goes to fullscreen or starts in fullscreen it sometimes (other times it works fine) causes my system to freeze, i.e. I still see my gnome desktop and the gnome bars and a window titled "wesnoth 1.10" with all black content. I can still move the curser around but neither clicks nor keystrokes show any effect. Trying to switch to tty by CTRL+ALT+Fsomething causes the screen to go black and remain unresponsive.

I run Wesnoth 1.10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad with an onboard Intel graphics chip.

Since I am somewhat of a newbie to arch I have no Idea how to even start tracking the problem down (is it a game, gnome or graphics driver issue?) so any help would be apprechiated!

Kind Regards
DeBazthed

Last edited by debazthed (2012-02-22 19:53:14)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Battle for Wesnoth fullscreen issues

I get the black fullscreen with cursor too. Ctrl-q quits wesnoth.
I fixed it by setting the resolution manually in wesnoth's config (obviously you should pick the resolution for your screen, not necessarily 1280x1024):

...
xresolution=1280
xwindowsize=1280
yresolution=1024
ywindowsize=1024
...

Seems that setting the windowsize alone (e.g. from the game 'Preferences' menu) doesn't cut it.

debazthed

Member

Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Battle for Wesnoth fullscreen issues

Thanks karol!

It seems as this solves the issues! The windowsize was set, but the resolution entries had no values....

Thank you!