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First post, by AMIGrAve

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Hi all,

I've got two monitors running nvidia twinview under linux.
Dosbox was always going fullscreen on my first monitor and my goal was to use the second monitor. I was frustrated until I found out the SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD environement variable which allow me to use my second monitor :

SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1 dosbox

As I had a similar problem with sdlmame, I tried this

SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1 sdlmame

But it doesn't work. I'm currently asking help on the sdlmame forum :

http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.ph … 50869#Post50869

According to R. Belmont, dosbox is probably the only application working with this sdl env variable.

So I'm aslking sdl devs here if they did something special in order to make dosbox work with SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD ?

Fabien Meghazi
http://www.amigrave.com

Reply 1 of 5, by Qbix

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nope, you could try our SDL.dll with sdlmame though
Maybe it is a version difference

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 2 of 5, by wd

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He's on linux it seems (only).

Tried some sdl demo apps?

Reply 3 of 5, by AMIGrAve

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I didn't tough about trying a demo.

Indeed I took this demo :

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/aliens/

and I could use SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD successfully.

Going back to sdlmame forum with this info. Thanks !

Fabien Meghazi
http://www.amigrave.com

Reply 5 of 5, by AMIGrAve

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I've compiled both sdlmame, dosbox and this alien demo against libsdl1.2-dev 1.2.13-4ubuntu3

Fabien Meghazi
http://www.amigrave.com