Window minimises randomly from Full Screen mode

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:49 pm

Hi there. Just wondering if anyone has ever had this issue?
I am using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and installed Armagetron Advanced using Synaptic.
I'll be playing online for about 15 mins - half an hour and then without warning (usually during a tight, fast paced duel), my screen minimises from Full screen mode and I have to click it in the task bar to re-maximise it. Fortunately, auto pilot kicks in and the game keeps running so unless I'm in a battle, I usually survive but this really nips my box (annoys me).
Would running armagetron from the cli resolve this?
Thanks
Dopple

Post by **epsy** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:35 pm

as far as i've seen ubuntu distributes some strange-modified version of arma and i have no clue why they did these...your problems could come from that...

do you see just when you join a game that « <you> wants to play for <the team/guy who is on top of the score table> on the next respawn » ? i've seen many doing that and they all said it was done automatically and that their arma comes right from the ubuntu repos

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:59 pm

It does indeed epsy, but as far as I remember it's only when I enter a game which uses respawn (Sorry if this states the obvious

). I might try un-installing it and re-installing it from the site itself. I will post back later tonight if this doesn't resolve the problem.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:46 pm

Sounds a lot like either you consistently accidentally press the fullscreen toggle button, or a screensaver kicking on.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:55 pm

must be the way something is implemented in Vista did or something the VC manufacture left out of the drivers that it uses

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:21 pm

kyle wrote:must be the way something is implemented in Vista did or something the VC manufacture left out of the drivers that it uses

Didn't he say "Ubuntu"?

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:30 pm

yeah just saw that my fullscreen toggle button is f, right next to my left keys.
Cheers. .

Post by **epsy** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:22 pm

i'm still wondering why the client tends automatically to join the leading team when entering a server...

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:43 pm

epsy wrote:i'm still wondering why the client tends automatically to join the leading team when entering a server...

To balance the teams. ;)

-ph

Wink-wink, nudge-nudge!

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:05 pm

Seems to me it would be more balanced if new players automatically joined the losing team.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:47 pm

dopple wrote:Seems to me it would be more balanced if new players automatically joined the losing team.

We've been rounds over this one, but here we go again.

Since the new player usually screws up the team, it's more balancing to put him on the team that has the lead.

Well, that's not true, but it's funny!

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:57 pm

dopple wrote:Seems to me it would be more balanced if new players automatically joined the losing team.

Pfff! I was trashing on Epsy, questionning his skill in the game, making references that his client thinked he <pejoratif adjectif> so much that he placed him in the leading team for balancing purpose. You see, that's the problem with native speakers. They always misunderstand what you are saying.

-ph
Who is not serious at the moment.

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:32 pm

philippeqc wrote:.... You see, that's the problem with native speakers. They always misunderstand what you are saying.

Sorry I don't follow.

Post by **epsy** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:56 pm

me neither...i was just wondering why ubuntu made that auto-join thing...it happens even in unusual context, when team_max_players = 1...

dopple · Post by **dopple** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:27 pm

Also, The screen minimises when I'm not touching the keyboard. I've selected the "keep window active" option.