The other possibility re resizing XFractint SDL windows while in use is Fractint itself can't handle the switch? That thought also crossed my mind.
Thanks for giving me an appreciation of the freedom (and possible consequences) of choosing window managers in Linux.
I just tried the same [Window sizing] things in XFractint (non-SDL) and had no problems. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to change the video mode. The Delete key there only redraws the fractal. That seems strange. I don't have a Linux macjine here to try that.
Can someone else try changing the resolution of the output fractal in *non-SDL* Xfractint with the Delete key, and report their results here? Thanks! - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of david Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 3:04 AM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Update to SDL version Wouldn't surprise me. Linux makes it more complicated than Windows because Windows has only one system for managing application windows. Linux offers many. I use the XFCE desktop environment running on the Light Display Manager windows manager. There are plenty others: Ubuntu with its to-be-discontinued Unity desktop environment, to be replaced with GNOME3 (IIRC). KDE and GNOME provider their own window managers. Others include Afterstep, FVWM, blackbox/fluxbox, Compiz (OpenGL window and compositing manager), Enlightenment, FLWM, IceWM (for that classic W95-OS/2-Motif look), JWM, LXDE, etc, etc, etc. Then, under that, most all of desktop environments/window managers can run on top of either X.org or Wayland video platforms. Windows has only one video platform. It all exists of course because Linux is for freedom of choice and figures we're all adults and accept the consequences of our choices. ;) The other possibility re resizing XFractint SDL windows while in use is Fractint itself can't handle the switch? I don't know. I just tried the same things in XFractint (non-SDL) and had no problems. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to change the video mode. The Delete key there only redraws the fractal. On 10/08/2017 08:21 PM, Harold Lane wrote:
David, Jonathan,
Starting [the new Xfractint] again with default Mandelbrot, dragging to top to make it fill the screen, then dragging it back down gave me a segmentation fault. I also experience crashes from SDL Fractint in my Win10 system -- when I do operations similar to what you did -- although, I used the "Restore Window Size" (square icon) in the upper right corner of SDL Fractint 's window to command the window size reduction/restoration. It appears that the SDL Fractint application window being resized surprises the OS windowing functions in some unexpected way in both OSs.
- Hal Lane
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-----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of david Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 12:35 AM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Update to SDL version
When I went to View and changed the ratio to what I calculated for my 1920x1080 display, drag selecting items on the screen started acting misplaced. Mouse pointer would be above and to the left, or otherwise different from where the zoom back was being drawn.
Switching from that view back to 640x480x256 gave me a segmentation fault.
Starting it again and picking the 1280x1024 TrueColor mode gave me a nice Mandelbrot. I dragged it up the top of screen, where the window popped to 1920x1080 (less the window title bar). Dragged it back down and got a segmentation fault.
Starting it again with default Mandelbrot, dragging to top to make it fill the screen, then dragging it back down gave me a segmentation fault.
Still having fun with it! :)
On 10/08/2017 06:24 PM, david wrote:
Just dragged the graphic window up to the top of the screen, where my desktop manager snapped it to full screen (1920x1080). That seemed to be doing nothing, so I hit Tab to see if it was calculating. It was on line 12. So I hit escape to go back to the graphic screen, got a screen with a mishmash of very large type (from the text screen) and a bit of graphic screen, then a segmentation fault.
On 10/08/2017 05:06 PM, david wrote:
Just tried it from a terminal, it reports:
./XFractint: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Installed libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 from Debian repository. Then it ran.
Will report back with results. It seems to zoom and calculate very quickly on my i7. Mouse behaves itself just fine.
Having it generate a 46340x46340 of one of the marksjulia formulas right now.
:)
On 10/08/2017 12:03 PM, David W. Jones wrote:
Thanks, will check it out! :)
On October 8, 2017 10:25:04 AM HST, Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@mediacombb.net> wrote:
I put the pre-compiled 64-bit Linux version on the developers web site as:
http://www.fractint.net/ftp/experimental/SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2017
-10-08.tar.gz
Jonathan
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