[beauman]

Hello!

I would like to start a console emulator in fullscreen mode from within xbmc's plugin ROM Collection Browser. Normally xbmc itself would be switched from fullscreen to windowed mode for that. In our project we had an issue with xbmc not being switched back to fullscreen mode after game exit (see https://github.com/ProfessorKaos64/RetroRig/issues/68). After some investigation I came to the conclusion that xbmc receives an external request to switch to windowed mode. I disabled this function in xbmc (see https://github.com/beaumanvienna/xbmc/bl...t.cpp#L952). I really liked this change, it's not only much faster to launch a game now, also during the transition between xbmc and the game the desktop doesn't get revealed. Now it feels much more like an actual console.

This does always work on display 0, and it does work on display 1, but only when running in Virtualbox. Now I'm testing this on an actual desktop rig, and it breaks for the external display.

Any idea how I could keep xbmc in fullscreen mode in the background and launch a fullscreen game on top of that?

I'm building on top of fernetMenta/xbmc, branch 13.1 "gotham".

Thanks!

[EDIT]: !! I was using a nouveau driver when had this problem. *Now* I'm using a proprietary driver from Nvidia, which does solve this issue.

Regards,
Beauman