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From: Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X launch hijack?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:27:22 -0000 (UTC)
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Winston <wbe@ubeblock.psr.com.invalid> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> posted:
>>>> When I want to play OpenTTD full-screen,I have launched
>>>> "xinit openttd" and had this bring up the game full-screen, ...
> 
> to which I replied:
>>> man 1 xinit says:
>>>    "Both the client program name and the server program name must begin
>>>    with a slash (/) or a period (.).  Otherwise, they are treated as an
>>>    arguments to be appended to their respective startup lines."
> 
> Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> replied:
>> Is this a recent change to functionality?
> 
> An xinit man page from 1990 that has copyright 1988 says the same thing,
> so not what I'd call recently.
> 
>> I know "xinit openttd" worked before.
> 
> Don't know.  "xinit `which openttd`", which isn't much longer, should
> work, I would think.  If you define openttd as an environment variable,
> you could even do "xinit $openttd".  :)
> 
> The other thing I don't understand is why you need to do that at all.
> X11 programs are entirely capable of having their window be full-screen
> size even after a standard xinit/startx startup, so I would think you
> wouldn't need to do a special startup to get full-screen, unless that's
> an openttd issue.
>  -WBE

The issue may be with my .xinitrc invoking the window manager,
apparently that was not there before (AND I used a different
window manager).

Will have to explore.

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