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MickeyKnox

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 169

DWM and steam fullscreen videos

I use the dwm display manager. When I watch a video on steam in fullscreen mode, there is no way to go back (at least, I don't know any). ESC does nothing, the small button of the player to toggle fullscreen only pauses the video. Shift-Alt-C to close the window does nothing, not even Shift-Alt-Q has any effect. The only thing I can do (short of pressing the reset button on my computer) is to go to a virtual terminal and killall steam.
I don't have this issue with youtube videos, the ESC key works fine.
Is this an issue with steam or with dwm? Can I do anything about it?

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: DWM and steam fullscreen videos

I never could get Steam working properly with dwm and have since switched to xmonad (which works fine).

Have you tried the latest HEAD/MASTER branch from git?

Last time I tried it (a few months ago) the games would actually go fullscreen (which was an improvement over the version in the repositories) but wouldn't accept control inputs

EDIT: Try setting the Steam window type (find that with `xprop`) to "fullscreen" in your config.h

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-01-26 21:25:45)

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MickeyKnox

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 169

Re: DWM and steam fullscreen videos

I've been using xmonad for years and nothing ever went to fullscreen. No youtube videos, no facebook pictures, nothing. I haven't done a lot of customizing though.
However, I'm not talking about games. Beatbuddy and Hotline Miami work very well, Halflife Lost Cost looked broken, when I tried it.
I'm talking about the videos on the promotional sites. In the lower right corner, there is this fullscreen icon. When I click that, the video goes fullscreen. My problem is, when I click the button again, the video won't go back to normal and I can't access my desktop anymore.
I'm using the dwm version from the repo.