Fullscreen annoyances

charlton

Just wanted to say, really great work on the doomsday engine.

One question, is there a configuration setting to completely turn off fullscreen? I mean so that it NEVER goes fullscreen? See, the Alt-F11 key sequence is what I constantly use to release the mouse, but the F11 sequence causes it to go full-screen and completely screws up my desktop and all my windows. Sometimes the Alt doesn't catch/detect, and it's actually a real problem.
Maybe it's just a very bad coincidence in the keysetting defaults (perhaps I can change them?)

Vermil

One doesn't need to press Alt+F11; F11 by itself is the in game shortcut.

Add -wnd to the command line to default to windowed mode.

The Snowberry GUI also has an option under display that will add it to the command line for you.

skyjake

charlton wrote:

Just wanted to say, really great work on the doomsday engine.

Thanks!

charlton wrote:

One question, is there a configuration setting to completely turn off fullscreen?

A few things that might help you:

• The mouse is automatically released when you make the Doomsday Taskbar visible, either by pressing Shift+Esc or your configured shortcut (default is Tilde). Clicking on the game view will again hide the cursor and the taskbar.
• If you set the fullscreen resolution to match your desktop resolution (under Gear > Video in the taskbar), there is no danger of messing up your windows since the display mode isn't changed when you run Doomsday.
• You can change the release mouse binding in the console, for instance:

  bindevent global:key-f9 releasemouse
  

charlton

Excellent! My problem(s) are fixed!
I didn't realize there was more than one way to skin this cat.

I've played thru Doom2, Evilution, and Plutonia... never could get into the Hexen series.
Now I just need to find some new .wads/games for this engine.