[pygame] Fullscreen issues only on certain distros

[Eilidh Fridlington <eilidh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I posted this the other day on stackoverflow but nobody answered:

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I'm having the same, reproducible error when using pygame in fullscreen 
under Ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04 and openSuse 13.2. Under Fedora 21 and Debian 
Wheezy there are no issues whatsoever.

The error is that once in fullscreen the script doesn't respond to 
keyboard input; the only way to exit is to Ctrl+Alt into another 
terminal and kill the process before returning to the desktop.

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My posting then goes on to list the part of the scripts that deals with 
the windowed / fullscreen routine. The scripts can be found in my github 
repository that you can clone:

git clone https://github.com/fridlington/K11Consult.git

The two files that can be used for testing are importDials.py and 
importSingleDials.py

Further investigation suggests that it's something to do with 
libsdl-alsa and it's a long running issue with Ubuntu; the fix being 
installing libsdl-pulseaudio

It would be really helpful if someone using Ubuntu or openSuse could 
verify the issue for me.

The original stackoverflow posting is:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27593714/fullscreen-pygame-issues-only-on-certain-distros

The Ubuntu fullscreen / ALSA bug (reported in 2010, comment #6 
suggesting the libsdl-pulseaudio workaround):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/537137


Kind regards,

Eilidh