Bug#839104: extremetuxracer takes the focus but no windows is displayed but sound is played => impossible to switch to other applications, impossible to close extremetuxracer

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 19 October 2016 at 22:08, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> On 19.10.2016 15:43, Isaac To wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:59:47 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org
>> <mailto:apo at debian.org>> wrote:
>>> On 29.09.2016 14:52, gpe wrote:
>>> > I'm using gnome and a NVIDIA vidéo card with NVIDIA drivers.
>>>
>>> I'm also using GNOME but with an ATI video card and free drivers. What
>>> happens if you use the free nouveau drivers?
>>
>> I just want to share that I see exactly the same problem: a window shows
>> up, immediately get deleted, and this repeats after a very short while.
>> My lspci shows the following:
>
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your additional information but unfortunately I don't know
> how to interpret your strace output. I find it still unlikely that
> extremetuxracer is the root cause because the game (or the packaging)
> has not changed in months. It is rather related to your video card
> driver, the X server, SDL or window manager.

 Even my own build I last used a couple of months ago has broken this
way. I suspect it was broken either SFML (etr no longer uses SDL) or
gdm updates.


 - ML