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Well, I figured I would give it a try. I started a second X session and
set the CIV_FULLSCREEN environment variable to 1 and started the civctp
demo.

[sigh]

I got a big, blank screen. Not only that, but I had to kill the demo and
it must have left something untidy because the system was horribly slow
until I rebooted. (There went 67+ days of uptime.)

I guess I must not be running one of the video cards compatible with DGA.
(It’s an ATI All-in-Wonder, by the way.)

Now I am bound and determined to allocate as much resources as I can bring
to bear to improve the state of gaming on (my) Linux systems. (Community
at its finest.)

(Just a thought, maybe you can’t do what I was trying from a second X
session. That doesn’t make any sense, but neither did what I
experienced.)

Paul Braman
@Paul_Braman

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Ok, try this:

  • Start Civ in normal windowed mode.
  • Go to the options panel and set the resolution to your desktop size
  • Exit Civ and restart it.

Although this is still technically windowed mode, I get no border of any
kind. and the game takes up the full desktop. Depending upon what
window manager you are using, you may have to do something to hide the
menu bar (if your wm has one) I’m using KDE and I just slide the menu
bar over to one side (and I have the application bar turned off, but
that’s because I hate the thing.)

		-fjr

Paul Braman wrote:>

Well, I figured I would give it a try. I started a second X session and
set the CIV_FULLSCREEN environment variable to 1 and started the civctp
demo.

[sigh]

I got a big, blank screen. Not only that, but I had to kill the demo and
it must have left something untidy because the system was horribly slow
until I rebooted. (There went 67+ days of uptime.)

I guess I must not be running one of the video cards compatible with DGA.
(It’s an ATI All-in-Wonder, by the way.)

Now I am bound and determined to allocate as much resources as I can bring
to bear to improve the state of gaming on (my) Linux systems. (Community
at its finest.)

(Just a thought, maybe you can’t do what I was trying from a second X
session. That doesn’t make any sense, but neither did what I
experienced.)

Paul Braman
aeon at tampabay.rr.com