Stk-code: Fullscreen minimizes when losing focus

Created on 29 Aug 2020 · 5Comments · Source: supertuxkart/stk-code

Description

When playing Stk, I have a second monitor that I use for other stuff, notably online while waiting that everyone presses Ready in a Lobby. It used to be fine but now, Stk minimizes when it loses focus, which is annoying as I cannot read the Lobby's messages and need to restore the "window" each time to continue playing.

Steps to reproduce

Play in Fullscreen on 1 monitor out of 2 or more, make Stk lose focus by doing something with the other screen.
There is no issue if playing windowed.

Configuration

STK release version: 1.2, maybe a few commits later...
STK Source (PPA, distribution package, official binary, etc.): GitHub
System: Debian 10
Graphics card: Rx 560
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X

Additional information

..:: Antarctica Rendering Engine 2.0 ::..
[info   ] IrrDriver: OpenGL version: 4.5
[info   ] IrrDriver: OpenGL vendor: X.Org
[info   ] IrrDriver: OpenGL renderer: Radeon RX 560 Series (POLARIS11, DRM 3.36.0, 4.19.0-10-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
[info   ] IrrDriver: OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6

Other normal fixed defect regression

Source

Fouks0

All 5 comments

try

    if (CreationParams.Fullscreen)
        SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS, "0");

in CIrrDeviceSDL.cpp

Benau on 29 Aug 2020

👍1

That seems to work fine :D !

Fouks0 on 29 Aug 2020

I'm not near the computer atm but it should be possible to use
export SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0
before launching STK, so no need to recompile