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HL1 spawns window on left-most screen, not primary screen

steamclosed Feature RequestreviewedMOVED: Half-Life 1
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#823 · opened 2013-01-25 by Tele42 · updated 2023-11-18 · 11 comments · github
TTele42 2013-01-25 github

I have a secondary monitor to the left setup with nVidia graphics and HL1 launches and plays on the left monitor only, which is ergonomically unsuitable for gaming. Having choice as to which monitor to use would be ideal.

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3600 Mhz
8 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
"Gentoo Base System release 2.1" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.6.11-gentoo
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11301000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.18
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0xe22
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Video Cards Not Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.04" x 11.26" (22.95" diag)
50.9cm x 28.6cm (58.3cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Loopback Mixer

Memory:
RAM: 16035 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 905512 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 49214 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Tue Jan 22 02:42:31 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130121214230_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-b3613bcc-4f59-4157-81f7-90ad02130121''
Wed Jan 23 00:46:23 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130122194621_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-cccc792b-0780-4a48-aeae-3f5fe2130122''
Thu Jan 24 00:42:12 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130123194210_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-a96aa96a-717e-4522-bbd5-e089e2130123''
Thu Jan 24 01:14:10 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130123201408_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-952c1506-23c4-4f5b-b9aa-c14b32130123''
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RRussianNeuroMancer 2013-01-25 github

Same issue here, information about my display configuration: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/110.

Mmrdaemon 2013-01-25 github

Same issue, spawns on the wrong (left) monitor regardless of which is selected as primary (twinview/xinerama). TF2 does not exhibit that problem at all.

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 1995 Mhz
8 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (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: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1201
Number of Monitors:  2
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 3360 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 17,05" x 10,63"  (20,08" diag)
                                        43,3cm x 27,0cm  (51,0cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Analog Devices AD1984

Memory:
RAM: 12016 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 120950 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 56777 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

MMRZA-MRZA 2013-01-26 github

Confirm that.
My system configured to run games on primary monitor with resolution 1024x768 while secondary monitor turns off. But HL and CS run in native resolution ignoring video settings with huge and ugly fonts and menu items

Ppatlefort 2013-01-30 github

Same problem here. I'm running a multi-head setup (no xinerama or twin view). Steam is running on display :0.2, HL start on display :0.0. I found no way to override this. The $DISPLAY variable is the right one in the HL process.

Ssinatosk 2013-02-14 github

I too have this problem... I'm having to run it in window mode and move that to my desired screen

I'm surprised it's still here considering I reported this back when TF2 came out and they fixed it in TF2 and CSS

and why is this a feature request?

Mmrdaemon 2013-02-14 github

I would just like to add that the problem doesn't occur with the recentry release Counter-Strike: Source.

TTele42 2013-02-14 github

This issue report has been moved to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/7

Kkeebisbored 2023-11-18 github

Getting this issue 10 years later on gnome wayland. This is some history right here

MMart-Bogdan 2023-11-18 github

Same here, on KDE + xorg

But running game with Proton resolves this.

BBlisterexe 2023-11-18 github

i am also getting this issue on gnome wayland

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-11-18 github

Please use the ValveSoftware/halflife issue tracker for feedback on Half-Life (1).

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