gameflorist/dunedynasty

Linux Issues

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whipowill commented

First off, great work. I've been following David's project for years and I'm glad you are maintaining a project that had been lost to time. Thank you.

I'm on Linux (Zorin 16) and I've been having some issues I'd like to report. I had these issues even before your branch.

  • Starting the game fullscreenwindow I can't maximize the game with alt-enter. It just doesn't stretch the window and I get a blank black screen

  • Starting the game fullscreen my taskbar at the bottom of the screen always shows over the game

Any help would be appreciated. My guess is Allegro is getting outdated with what newer Linux OSes are doing. These issues may not be solvable, but they are relatively new. I just started having them about a year ago.

codeflorist commented

thanks for your bugreport!

i'm using the latest release of ubuntu (Lunar Lobster) on WSL for testing, and everything seems to be working fine there.

i assume, you have the latest packages installed/updated? liballegro5.2 and the other allegro packages shoud be v5.2.8.0.

(i also assume, direct3d is not available on linux? otherwise setting driver=direct3d in the config file would be a possible workaround.)

nontheless i've just opened an issue on the allegro5 repo here: liballeg/allegro5#1456. maybe they can reproduce the problem and come up with a fix.

you could also try posting an issue on this Dune Dynasty fork specifically for linux:
https://github.com/neg3ntropy/dunedynasty

whipowill commented

Fullscreen doesn't work. Fullscreen windowed doesn't work. But fullscreen windowed set to my monitor resolution did work. I assume it's a bug with Allegro.