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Re: [pygame] Pygame and windows managers



Have you tried reporting a bug to them?

Sounds like an distro/OS level problem.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Bram Cymet <bcymet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
>> Bram Cymet wrote:
>>> One thing I just noticed is that when I run pygame.display.get_driver()
>>> it returns fbcon where I am thinking this should return x11. Is there
>>> anywhere I can set the display driver that pygame uses?
>>>
>>>
>> Set the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to 'x11'. I have just
>> added this question in the Pygame FAQ:
>>
>> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>>
> Thanks for the tip. I had tried that one, just found it earlier today.
> After doing it is says something like video system no initialized and
> pygame.init() returns (5,1) so something failed. I am thinking there is
> a driver missing somewhere I am just sure what I need to install.
>
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