Bastion: Playing with multi-monitor setup locks the mouse on the wrong screen.

steamopen reviewed3rd party game

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1703 · opened 2013-02-14 by gablank · updated 2025-05-28 · 4 comments · github

Ggablank 2013-02-14 github

(Works fine on the same setup in Windows 8.)

I have three monitors: 1, 3 and 2 (in that physical orientation as well). The game starts up on monitor 3 (correct), but the cursor is locked to monitor 1. I do no have this issue with other games on Linux. Keyboard works fine in the menu, but not while playing the game (I don't remember if you use the keyboard while playing or not, so this might not be a bug).

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3019 Mhz
6 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-22-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

Driver Version:  4.2.12002 Compatibility Profile Context 9.012
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x6898
Number of Monitors:  3
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 5760 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.51" x 11.54"  (23.50" diag)
                                        52.1cm x 29.3cm  (59.7cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: VIA VT2020

Memory:
RAM: 7985 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 930837 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 858741 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-02-14 github

You should report this issue to the game developer.

Mmatt-scudder 2013-02-16 github

I have the same issue on Mint 14 with 2 monitors. If I have my secondary monitor located to the left in the display settings it will lock my mouse to the secondary monitor instead of the primary one (where bastion starts) However, everything works fine if I move my secondary monitor to the right of my primary in the display settings. It also works fine if I change it to windowed mode in game, but the -windowed and -noborder flags seem to do nothing when I add them in steam, so I'm stuck with a border if I do that.

Uurkle 2013-02-22 github

The fullscreen support in Bastion is handled entirely by the window manager.. Bastion simply request the window manager make it fullscreen. I would suggest swapping window managers to see if that alleviates the issue.. if it does, file a bug with your window manager.. if it doesn't please provide details on which window manager you are using.

I my self am using either Xfwm and am toying with Compiz 0.8.8 and my secondary monitor is to the LEFT of my primary and bastion correctly locks my mouse to the right (primary) monitor where it appears.

MManagor 2025-05-28 github

This should probably be closed. I'm unable to reproduce this and this is more of a third party issue.

Nothing extracted yet.