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Reply 60 of 70, by Dominus

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I think you should aim at the latest from the 1.2 branch
Edit: sorry, my mistake. The SDL-1.2.15 is for the target folder not the tag ;(

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Reply 61 of 70, by swashdev

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I took a look at this thread because I was having this problem with my new Xubuntu system (Ubuntu version 18.04.1) and someone mentioned that the Ctrl+F10 keypress was getting intercepted by the window manager. Looking at the options for my window manager, I could see that the Ctrl+F1-F12 key combinations were all used to switch between workspaces (also known as virtual desktops) and so by disabling these keyboard shortcuts in the window manager DOSBox was able to use the Ctrl+F10 key combination to capture my mouse.

In Xubuntu this is done by simply opening the Settings Manager from the Applications menu, clicking on Window Manager, going to the Keyboard tab, and selecting the Workspace 1 - Workspace 12 shortcuts, and pressing the clear button to remove the keyboard shortcuts. How you would do this in other versions of Ubuntu is beyond me, but this workaround fixed the problem to my satisfaction.

Reply 62 of 70, by gandhig

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swashdev wrote:

I took a look at this thread because I was having this problem with my new Xubuntu system (Ubuntu version 18.04.1) and someone mentioned that the Ctrl+F10 keypress was getting intercepted by the window manager. Looking at the options for my window manager, I could see that the Ctrl+F1-F12 key combinations were all used to switch between workspaces (also known as virtual desktops) and so by disabling these keyboard shortcuts in the window manager DOSBox was able to use the Ctrl+F10 key combination to capture my mouse.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Please note that this was one of the issues, but not the main problem mentioned in this thread. It pertains to Ubuntu version 18.10 with X.org version 1.20. You may be aware that Ubuntu version 18.04 comes with X.org 1.19.

We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue w.r.t either SDL-1.2.15 or X.org 1.20. Please bear with us for the delay. Hopeful of getting a temporary fix...at the least.

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Reply 64 of 70, by DosFreak

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Good work guys. Sorry I didn't help more. Was on leave and then working on getting a new job which I got!

I need to check the Readme to see if we have the CTR+FX issue mentioned in the Readme or not, that's always been an issue.

The below was commited three weeks ago so just in case it messes things up whever the distros get it:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/m … rge_requests/77

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Reply 65 of 70, by wanderyr

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You guys are amazing. Thanks for your hard work.

I see the diff file for this patch on your main page. Were you intending to build binaries any time soon?

If not, I guess I'll learn how to build linux software!

Thanks again,
wanderyr

P.S. Congrats on the new job, DosFreak!

Reply 66 of 70, by Qbix

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You have to check with your distro, we don't provide linux binaries ourselves.
I know that debian has the patch included in their testing and unstable distro.

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Reply 68 of 70, by Thorwald

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I got the same problem.
Xubuntu 18.04
It happened circa after upgrade to kernel 5.0
No mouse capture.
ALT-ENTER kill the DosBox window instead of making it full screen.
CTRL-F12 not working because mouse is not capture.

I have eliminated workspaces as suggested in one of the posts above but to no success.
I can open DosBox box in top-left corrner but when I press Full Screen it doesn't work.

Reply 69 of 70, by DosFreak

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Does that distributions repo have the version of DOSBox with the committ 4177 or later?

According to this the package was last updated Nov 2017 and the fix for this issue was commited in Dec 2018.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosbox

Options:
Ask the maintainer to update the package
Revert back to Xorg 1.19.
Use a newer version of Ubuntu
Compile the latest DOSBox
Possibly download the package for the latest Ubuntu and use it on your current version

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Reply 70 of 70, by blabber

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Hi dosbox Team,

could you please enable SDL_XORG_FIX for BSD based systems too? I just submitted a corresponding local patch to the FreeBSD ports tree[1], but it would be nice to have this upstream.

[1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244960

Thanks and best regards,

Tobias / blabber