No output options in dosbox-x.conf work except "surface" and "default", anything else creates completely invisible window about dosbox-x HOT 6 OPEN

Your conf file works fine here on ArchLinux SDL1 & SDL2.

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Hmmm. Well not here. Not sure what I can do to figure out what's going on. Perhaps this only happens on KDE 6?

Is there any way to change the output mode with a command after Dosbox-X is started?

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You can change settings with config command.
For instance config -set output=opengl

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Thanks, that works. I set config file to surface and then change to openglnb in my autoexec section.

The bug is real, but not sure how to diagnose what causes it. There's other weirdness going on, like fullscreen mode insists on moving to my main display. I had to set up window rules in KDE to force the window to the second display where I want it. No options in dosbos-x.conf would let me start it on the correct display.

Anyway, this workaround works for me.

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Does this occur with SDL2 or SDL1 based builds?

This might be something to bring to the Simple Directmedia Library dev's attention as well.

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I'm using the prebuilt chaotic-AUR package, it appears to be using SDL2...

ldd /usr/bin/dosbox-x | grep SDL
libSDL2-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (0x00007cb1e12eb000)

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