Bug#515129: update-notifier: Is visible when running full-screen

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:45:02AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 février 2009 à 20:53 +0100, Sylvain Beucler a écrit :
> > I was running a game (torus-trooper) in fullscreen mode.
> > update-notifier suddently showed and covered most of the screen (given 
> > the game low resolution). Naturally: game over :)
> > 
> > So it would be nice if update-notifier could avoid showing-up when the 
> > user is running a full-screen application, game or video namely.
> 
> Are you talking about the popups sent through notification-daemon ?
> 
> If so, they are already hidden for fullscreen applications like totem.
> It’s just that SDL doesn’t inhibit them properly.

Yes.

Is there an existing SDL bug about it, and do you have details on how
to properly fix this?

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Sylvain