Toggle Fullscreen in NWN

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Is it possible to switch between fullscreen and windowed mode while playing Neverwinter Nights?
I hate to quit NWN to check my emails or the like..

kosamae · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

fullscreen=0 and AllowWindowedMode=1 in your nwn/nwn.ini
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dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

OK, that makes it start in windowed mode. But how do i get it back into fullscreen mode (and vice versa) without the need to edit the configfile again and restart NWN? Is there a hotkey or something or isn't it possible at all?

kosamae · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject:

I haven't tried it, but you might be able to switch it by going to the console (~) and typing in "Fullscreen=1", or "Fullscreen=0" (you can use [TAB] to complete a command in the console, just like on any *nix console

). If it doesn't work initially, try typing in "Debugmode=1" first. If that doesn't work, I don't think anything will.
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dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Nice idea.

But doesn't work. I activated Debugmode, unfortunately there is no Fullscreen function.
Anyway, thanks for your help.

nison · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1

Well, I tried a few different things and couldn't get anything to work. One possibilty to play nwn fullscreen and use your normal desktop would be to open another X session.
Doing so you would be able to switch per <ctrl><alt>F8 back to your nwn after switching per <ctrl><alt>F7 to your desktop.

a little start script for nwn could look like this:

kosamae · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject:

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

elzbal · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

This is probably a good one for Bioware's NWN Linux forums.

Owiber · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 38

Yup,

NWN forums it is =)

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Interesting link.
I have found a similiar way to toggle fullscreen in the meantime. I use a Logitech keyboard with extra keys set up to control xmms (the package is called hotkeys). I was playing NWN and accidently hit one of those keys. NWN switched into windowed mode and xmms was launched. This way i was able to check my emails or doing anything else, NWN kept running in windowed mode.
Closing xmms or clicking into the NWN window switched it back into fullscreen mode.

btw: It will work with Fullscreen=0 and without the AllowWindowedMode=1 setting.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

put
Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"

in ServerLayout in XF86Config, (note, if you lock your screen with for example a screensaver, you need to make sure it supports the api to overwrite deactivategrabs).

then click ctrl+alt+numpad /, move your mouse off the nwn screen (it'll unlock the grab nwn has on the mouse), select a window, nwn will pop into window mode, do what you need, select nwn again, and in some 5-10 seconds nwn changes to full screen and grabs the mouse again