Re: Full Screen mode behaves differently on two "identical" systems

[Marshall Lake <mlake mlake net>]

> I have 2 computers, both running Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel2.6.27-9-generic). 
> When my gtkmm application goes to full screen mode, and the user brings 
> up any modal dialog (which is a child of the application main window), 
> on one system everything looks fine.  On the other, I get the System 
> menu (Applications Places System) appearing instead of the application 
> menu. When the dialog closes, the Application menu comes back.  This is 
> somewhat disconcerting to my users *grin*.
>
> Clearly, the systems are different somehow, but I'm at a loss as to 
> exactly where and why it would make a difference.  I have multiple 
> examples of each behavior.  So far, it seems that older PCs and newer 
> netbooks have the bad behavior, while my development laptops and some 
> newer desktop PCs work flawlessly.
>
> The same bad/good behavior happened when all my machines were running 
> Ubuntu 8.04 with multiple kernels.
>
> Any ideas?

Are you moving executables or recompiling from machine to machine?  Are 
the compiler versions the same across the machines?

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