windowed mode command?

[jbaerbock]

Hey just wondering what command I can use to start something in windowed mode. Sometimes I have issues when testing fullscreen games and they I'm screwed. So would like to keep it all windowed. Thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: windowed mode command?

Something to try. Programs in the xephyr window.

Install:
- xserver-xephyr
- xterm

In the konsole:

Xephyr :1 -screen 800x600 & export DISPLAY=:1; xterm

In the xterm:

startkde

Start program (if it starts ) in the new windowed Kubuntu/KDE session.


Xephyr:
Default resolution:

Xephyr :1 & export DISPLAY=:1; xterm

Fullscreen:

-fullscreen

Your choice:

-screen <x>x<y>

Note
With fullscreen, Alt + f3 is your friend (most of time).


Link:

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[cantab]

Re: windowed mode command?

Hey just wondering what command I can use to start something in windowed mode. Sometimes I have issues when testing fullscreen games and they I'm screwed. So would like to keep it all windowed. Thanks.

If you mean that fullscreen games are refusing to close,

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console

Login

Find and kill the offending process.

Try

ps aux | grep name_of_executable

you'll get something like this

user 6386 0.0 0.1 1756 448 ? S 10:29 0:00 /bin/sh /home/user/firefox/firefox
user 6389 0.0 0.1 1752 448 ? S 10:29 0:00 /bin/sh /home/user/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /home/user/firefox/firefox-bin
user 6394 35.9 37.5 291268 120396 ? SLl 10:29 39:10 /home/user/firefox/firefox-bin
user 7548 0.0 0.2 2988 744 pts/1 R+ 12:18 0:00 grep firefox

The bold numbers are the process ids. Then do

kill process_id

If that doesn't work do

kill -9 process_id

Then Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch back to the desktop. It will probably have a mucked up screen resolution so use krandrtray to put that right.

[jbaerbock]

Re: windowed mode command?

Thanks both suggestions will be useful. My problem was that some games which had not so bug free ports to Linux, or other random fullscreen, would freeze on me and I was stuck on it with nothing to do. Those shortcuts should help that problem.

Was wondering if there was a simple -w or something I could add in konsole to get a program to go windowed. Don't really wan't to install another terminal. Any other options?