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  Full screen exclusive mod "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kenneth.p..turvey@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:44 +0000
    Re: Full screen exclusive "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kenneth.p..turvey@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:44 +0000
      Re: Full screen exclusive "tar" <tar@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:44 +0000
    Re: Full screen exclusive "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kenneth.p..turvey@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:44 +0000
    Re: Full screen exclusive "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kenneth.p..turvey@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:45 +0000

#3449 — Full screen exclusive mod

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Full screen exclusive mode doesn't seem to work on my Ubuntu laptop.  I 
checked the bug list and this is listed as being fixed.  So, I have to 
wonder why it isn't working on my system.  I looked at the various 
reasons why it wouldn't work, according to the request for enhancement, 
and my system seems to meet all the requirements.  It isn't dual headed.  
It has the necessary dynamic link library.. so on. 

Is there any reason why full screen exclusive mode wouldn't work on a 
Linux box these days? 

Thanks,



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#3451 — Re: Full screen exclusive

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On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:45:38 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:

> I just tried it with a program that works fine on XP in FSEM and it
> reports that FSEM is not supported on Fedora 8.  I don't think I've ever
> gotten it to work in Linux.  Video performance is the one thing holding
> me up from converting a bunch of my applications to run on Linux.
> DirectX is very fast.

I've been using open source software for many years.. exclusively on my 
own machines.  Lately I've been considering getting a mac for my next 
computer purchase.  Hardware is a hassle and I just don't want to deal 
with little hassles anymore.  I'm sitting in a room now with a printer I 
can't use because there are no drivers for it.  

That said, I'm not going to move to a system that isn't based on Unix.  
I'm just a lot more productive on a Unix like system.

Back to Java.... 

Sun lists this as fixed.  So I wonder if this is a bug or if we are 
missing some important point in getting this to work.  Does anybody have 
this working under Linux? 

Thanks,



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#3456 — Re: Full screen exclusive

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"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@squeakydolphin.com> writes:

> Lately I've been considering getting a mac for my next 
> computer purchase.  Hardware is a hassle and I just don't want to deal 
> with little hassles anymore.
...
> That said, I'm not going to move to a system that isn't based on Unix.  
> I'm just a lot more productive on a Unix like system.
> 
> Back to Java.... 

OK, first of all let me say that I'm a big Mac fan and amateur
evangelist.  But it can be really, really frustrating being a Java
developer using a Mac.  New Java versions appear with fairly long lag
times on the Mac.  For instance, Java 6 was JUST released this past
week.  (It was available as a developer build for a while longer.)

Apple also infuriatingly tends to be very silent about the state of Java
and their plans, so there was a great deal of uproar concerning the
release of Java 6.  Also, there is usually a tendency to not release the
newest versions for older versions of the OS, so you do have to keep up
with the latest OS releases.  But that can be an issue for any software
you want to distribute, since users who don't have the latest OS version
won't have the latest Java either.

This puzzles me greatly, since it seems, IMHO, that Apple stands to gain
much more from the cross-platform nature of Java than Microsoft, and
yet, Java is often a lot slower to appear on the Mac platform.  I just
don't get it at all.

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#3455 — Re: Full screen exclusive

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On Sat, 03 May 2008 11:08:16 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:

> Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 08:42:44 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
>> 
>>> Sun lists this as fixed.  So I wonder if this is a bug or if we are
>>> missing some important point in getting this to work.  Does anybody
>>> have this working under Linux?
>> 
>> Here's a link to the closed bug report:
>> 
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4661156
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Ken:
> 
> Are you running 1.5 or 1.6?  I wonder if 1.6 has slipped.

1.6 05

Maybe.  I meet all the requirements in the above bug report.



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#3462 — Re: Full screen exclusive

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On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:45:08 -0700, Thomas A. Russ wrote:

[Snip]
> OK, first of all let me say that I'm a big Mac fan and amateur
> evangelist.  But it can be really, really frustrating being a Java
> developer using a Mac.  New Java versions appear with fairly long lag
> times on the Mac.  For instance, Java 6 was JUST released this past
> week.  (It was available as a developer build for a while longer.)
> 
> Apple also infuriatingly tends to be very silent about the state of Java
> and their plans, so there was a great deal of uproar concerning the
> release of Java 6.  Also, there is usually a tendency to not release the
> newest versions for older versions of the OS, so you do have to keep up
> with the latest OS releases.  But that can be an issue for any software
> you want to distribute, since users who don't have the latest OS version
> won't have the latest Java either.
> 
> This puzzles me greatly, since it seems, IMHO, that Apple stands to gain
> much more from the cross-platform nature of Java than Microsoft, and
> yet, Java is often a lot slower to appear on the Mac platform.  I just
> don't get it at all.

So what you're saying is that I might be trading one set of hassles for 
another?  That's too bad.  Macs really look nice these days.  Maybe Apple 
will fix this in the future.  Is there someone I could send an email to 
at Apple to let them know that this issue might lose them at least one 
sale in the future?



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