When wine tries to open fullscreen window, panel and launcher should be automatically hidden

[František Zatloukal]

It will be easier to run some games with wine and unity. In some cases - virtual desktop emulation doesn't helps(for example Battlefield 2142 - wine creates virtual desktop and after few seconds it automatically fails to normal window with panel and launcher visible).
It affects mainly games.

[Matthew (ruinairas1992)]

This is a problem with Compiz, not Unity. and this happens when reverting to a resolution less than your current one...the most common ones are 640x480, 1024x768, and 800x600. This DOES NOT happen with Unity 2D (because it doesn't use Compiz). This also happens with native games as well. So it's not a problem with wine.

a workaround is to switch to the resolution of your game BEFORE you run it..:)

p.s I really hope this gets fixed..it's been an issue for a while now.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 734908, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Matthew (ruinairas1992)]

I'm not sure if this is a complete duplicate. From the looks of it the other bug has been fixed and is related to fullscreen apps like firefox.."which works fine" but anything that changes resolution "example: Game switches resoultion for 1280x720 to 800x600" the unity and the panel show. I've uploaded a picture of Halo running to demonstrate it...ignore the fact that the game isn't rendered properly. I do not have S3TC enabled, and I'm not sure if halo even runs on older intel hardware (on ubuntu).

[Matthew (ruinairas1992)]

I managed to take a better snapshot of the situation. This might be a little bit easier to understand.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Bug 734908 applies to all fullscreen windows no matter what the application.