Bug 185982

Summary: unable to mouse draw on screen effect in fullscreen mode
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Nadav Kavalerchik <nadavkav>
Component: compositingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: alejandronova, jens.uhlenbrock, lawsonvieley, spectrumdt
Priority: LO    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nadav Kavalerchik 2009-03-02 18:19:27 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.26-1-amd64

there is a kwin special effect that enables drawing on screen with the mouse that works great in general except when i am in full screen mode in various applications: konqueror , okular, gwenview, digikam, openoffice impress...

when i switch back from full screen view i see what ever i was drawing before (in full screen mode) on the current screen.
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2009-03-02 18:26:07 UTC 
When there is a fullscreen window, compositing is disabled for the screen. So you can't see the mouse markings. You can disable the unredirecting of fullscreen windows in kwinrc. Just add the following line to section [Compositing]
UnredirectFullscreen=false

Dev note: effects should be able to turn off unredirect fullscreen windows.
Comment 2 Nadav Kavalerchik 2009-03-02 18:34:36 UTC 
excellent :-)
works great, thanks.
Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2009-04-12 19:24:26 UTC 
*** Bug 189470 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2009-10-03 16:08:26 UTC 
*** Bug 209311 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Alejandro Nova 2012-06-06 20:06:29 UTC 
There is an UI for this now, and even there was a plan to coordinate better with the apps the unredirection. So, why not close this bug as RESOLVED / WORKSFORME?
Comment 6 Thomas Lübking 2012-06-06 20:34:13 UTC 
unredirecting fullscreen is no longer the default and as mentioned by alejandro there's a config item - it's fixed (as much as possible, unredirected windows cannot be mouse marked)

Thanks for the hint on the pending report.