Frozen Bubbles messes up resolution

enigma9o7 · 09-04-2018, 01:23 AM

On my P4, when exiting the game frozen bubbles, which I got from the bodhi appcenter, it puts my desktop at 800x600. This only happens if the game is played fullscreen (which it always is, I setup everything full screen cuz its for my little kids). This doesn't happen on my other computers, they return to normal resolution after exiting....

If nobody has a solution, I guess what I could do is make a script that runs xrandr to fix it afterwards or something...

dogpatch · 09-05-2018, 07:58 PM

Had a different graphics problem with frozen bubble (see this thread). Frozen bubble uses SDL-perl library for graphics, which was doing weird things on my machine as well - only for full screen. I finally solved my graphics problem by editing the frozen bubble game itself (/usr/games/frozen-bubble on my system), as noted in the above thread. You may be able to do likewise (after backing up the original copy of the game).

ondoho · 09-06-2018, 12:38 AM

on my archlinux system frozen-bubble is working fine (both problems mentioned ion this thread are not happening), it's version 2.2.1beta1-12.
i wonder which version ubuntu uses?
if it uses the same version, i'd say the problem(s) is/are in the sdl libraries, not frozen bubble itself.
(of course it can still be fixed by changing frozenbubble's code as dogpatch did)

dogpatch · 09-06-2018, 08:14 AM

Here's another thought: That, since SDL relies heavily upon the graphics config for Xwindows, the problem may be in that config file (or in the way sdl/frozen bubble interprets it). For example, in your case, you may be able to disable 800 x 600 resolution since you normally don't want that anyway. On my old Debian system, i would look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not sure of the naming convention for your system