Raspberry pi 2 Stuck in Full Screen with no Mouse

[Thomas Pope]

This morning I upgraded from Kivy 1.8 to 1.9, since the upgrade all apps are opening full screen. I also have no cursor which makes finding my "exit" button extremely difficult. The only way I'm able to consistently get out of an app is to restart the pi. (raspberry pi 2, kivy 1.9)

I have tried all the normal keyboard options, I have tried editing the config file, etc. Code such as the below makes no difference:

from kivy.config import Config
Config.set('graphics', 'fullscreen', 0)
Config.write()

I ran:




import kivy


help(kivy)

and found the location of the config file. It is indeed set as fullscreen '0', tried changing it to 1, auto, and fake but no option made any difference.

My problem mirrors another person's and I've tried everything suggested here:

Can't close Kivy app or avoid fullscreen

Its worth noting that prior to the upgrade I didn't have this issue and I just completed a fresh install and update of Raspian, installed kivy, and have the same problem. Help is much appreciated!

[Myster D.]

As far as I know, Kivy 1.9 does not support windowed mode under X on the Raspberry Pi. The apps just use the frame buffer to display and thus, applications are always full screen.

In order to enable cursor, did you try to add

touchring = show_cursor=true

in the "[Modules]" section of kivy's config.ini ?

Maybe this issue has been solved since I last checked...

Regards,

Myster-D

[Thomas Pope]

Thanks for the reply! I've been doing a ton of reading and I believe that you're right about 1.9 not supporting window mode. I haven't seen it explicitly stated, but that seems to be the consensus. The lack of mouse cursor and non-functional exit hotkeys are a problem / bug though. For the time being I'm just going to all my development on a 7" touch screen so I can use the exit button. Its far from ideal, but at least I'll still be able to make forward progress.