Twinview Thread - Linux Gamers

Had the annoying problem of some games using both monitors.

Added an environment variable to the top of the desura launch script and it fixed it.

export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=0

Hope this helps someone else.

Edited by: airencrackenz

Ooh that's interesting!

I tend to just run mine in a Window somewhere close to the fullscreen resolution of one monitor. The problem with that is you get window decoration. I've been trying for as long as I can remember to get Compiz to paint SDL windows with the fullscreen hint but haven't found away. Looking through the rest of SDL's environment variables there might be a way to set a class on the window and have compiz target it. Will update when I know more.

Yes! That sort of works!

I ran

env SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS=pie /opt/revengeofthetitans/revenge.sh

and used Compiz's Window Rules plugin to target class=pie for fullscreen and it removed decorations and painted above the panels. The problem specific to Revenge of the Titans (and a couple of others) is you can't set the resolution... But this should work for other SDL games where you can set the resolution to just one of your screens in-game.

Ah, I don't use compiz, or any sort of DE, but that looks like it'll be useful for people that do.

I can't imagine you use no DE at all...

Dragonlord wrote: I can't imagine you use no DE at all...

I use a window manager (tiling), but I don't have a full desktop environment. I don't use a graphical file manager either. I dunno, just the way I prefer to run.