Many SDL games will not render correctly on CDE, the same is for mwm, and fvwm which are really similar to dtwm. I believe this is a new issue.
The same behaviour does not happen in say some of the more conventional WMs and DEs, I believe it to be a new bug with sdl, as I remember playing sdl games on CDE in the 2000s on solaris and it was fine. A game that you can use for an example that is both free, and easy to obtain would be Xonotic-SDL. I have tested it on CDE for openbsd, archlinux and freebsd with the same results. Its window does not open properly even in windowed mode. Yet it will launch perfectly in a more modern WM, so I think there is an issue with SDL games and dtwm, fvwm, mwm and other WMs of this nature such as twm, vtwm, ctwm, etc. Again, a few games I can think of that have the issue (pretty much any sdl game) xonotic-sdl (easiest to get) doesnt work DevilutionX doesnt work, abuse works c-dogs works i do not know how it got like this when i could run quake sdl on the original cde, but it would be nice ot see a fix as part of the effort to return cde to its original glory, sdl devs certainly arent going to care about some obscure WMs and games _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
