Pidgeon IM buggering up fullscreen

[Mabs]

it only seems to have recently started doing it, and i havent tweaked anything so im at a loss. it occurs thus :

something full screen (not everything), mostly company of heroes and age of conan (both running in DX10 if that counts??).all points bulletin isnt effected tho, and thats DX10. if someone IMs me, the little chat box appears and window-mode-s whatever i got full screen. it doesnt seem to do it with everything, or indeed -anything- in fullscreen DX9

any ideas ?

 

[MYstIC G]

Tried the "Minimise new IM" option in the settings?

 

[Mabs]

yea that is a workaround
but i like having it like it was before :\

will go on fighting with it

 

[MYstIC G]

What plugins you running?

 

[Mabs]

none at all :/

 

[MYstIC G]

Weird. Have you checked their bugtracker?

 

[Athan]

My experience is that some games will drop out of fullscreen the moment any other app grabs focus for even a microsecond. Possibly even just any window update at all. In short, blame the game devs for being clueless in some manner.

And, yeah, I long-since enabled the "Minimise new IM windows" option in Pidgin. Too much hassle to play without that. It does help to have IM 'new message' sounds enabled so you have a clue you have someone trying to talk to you.