Bug#820304: openarena: does not run in a gnome wayland session

[Jérémy Lal]

2016-04-07 12:25 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:

> Control: reassign 820304 ioquake3
> Control: found 820304 1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-2
> Control: affects 820304 + openarena quake3
> Control: user pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Control: usertags 820304 + wayland
>
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 at 10:57:38 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > i've tried running openarena in a gnome wayland session but it fails with
> ...
> > Couldn't get a visual
> > ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (-1)
>
> It worked OK for me, but perhaps only in windowed mode?
>
> Variables involved:
> * full-screen or not (\set r_fullscreen 1 or 0)
> * display mode (\set r_mode 3 for 640x480, -1 for desktop resolution)
> * $SDL_VIDEODRIVER set to wayland or x11 (by default it uses X11 I think)
> * your video hardware (I'm on Intel)
>

Well,
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland openarena
fixes the issue in fullscreen mode.

I'm using radeon driver.

openarena is really only the game logic, so I'm reassigning this to
> ioquake3 and marking it as affecting openarena (and guessing that
> quake3 will behave the same).
>
> Don't expect a quick fix for this: full-screen games on Wayland are one
> of the bits that is not necessarily expected to work yet.
>

That's fair.
Anyway it works by overriding SDL_VIDEODRIVER detection, and it's playable.
(if i ignore the weird mouse-cannot-go-further bug).

Jérémy
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