Issue #7563 - FC Freezes/Locks after initiating Full Screen (View → Click Fullscreen)

[Palmtree]

Start FC => New document => View →  Click Fullscreen (Image 1) ==> Most functions (including 7 sub-menus in the standard menu + Work benches pull down menu) are frozen/ locked (no response)

Assume I am a newbie (not sure how to go back) →
To end task (WIN 10) → Ctrl+Alt+ Del → to activate Task Manager screen → no Task Manager Screen
Alt+Tab to flick opened windows to pick-up the Task Manager screen → Task Manager screen disappear quickly and strangely

Click Alt+F11 → all good and back to full control

Is this NORMAL and designed to be like this? Please confirm



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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.30430 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 9e1ed4a68ad43309c2b38f7f5efbb1feac4323cb
Python 3.10.6, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)
Installed mods: 
  * Behave-Dark-Colors 0.1.1
  * BIM 2021.12.0
  * Design456 0.0.1
  * dodo
  * Dracula 0.0.2
  * fasteners 0.4.10
  * Help 1.0.3
  * Parts_library
  * PieMenu
  * ProDarkThemePreferencePack 1.0.0
  * Reinforcement
  * SketchArch

[Kunda1]

Observations:

• UI doesn't show how to disable Full screen mode (as OP wrote, the answer is ALT+F11)
• in full screen mode I successfully activated workbench dropdown (contrary to OPs observations)
• Pressing ALT key or scrolling up to the top of the screen doesn't trigger file menu dropdown. No way to access filemenu (AFAICT) in Full screen mode. User must google to find out the key combo)

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OS: Ubuntu Core 20 (KDE/plasma)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.30454 (Git) Snap 311
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 5df954690787dedbbf3c35f658f010f388474676
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.5, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 7.1.1, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * TabBar
  * ExtremeProDark 1.0.4

[Roy_043]

I confirm the issue. All dropdowns are blocked somehow. Apart from the menus and the workbench selector, the toolbar flyouts don't work either.

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OS: Windows 8.1 Version 6.3 (Build 9600)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.30454 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 5df954690787dedbbf3c35f658f010f388474676
Python 3.10.6, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: Dutch/Netherlands (nl_NL)
Installed mods: 

[Kunda1]

@Palmtree please open a ticket and x-post back here. Thanks for reporting!

[jreyno40]

I see this as well.

[thomas-neemann]

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there are no such problems here, could it have something to do with an addon?

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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (XFCE/xubuntu)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.1.29410 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20.1)
Hash: f5d13554ecc7a456fb6e970568ae5c74ba727563
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[Syres]

None of the issues reported by the OP occur using:

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OS: Linux Mint 20.3 (X-Cinnamon/cinnamon)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.30468 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: cbc5cf8ee08415c411709699299d22440c07199f
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.12.8, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 7.1.1, OCC 7.3.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)
Installed mods: 
  * A2plus 0.4.59
  * Curves 0.5.8
  * ExtremeProDark 1.0.4
  * Plot 2022.4.17
  * fasteners 0.4.6
  * sheetmetal 0.2.57

I'd take an educated guess this is a packaging issue with a target of the version of Qt.

[Kunda1]

I see this as well.

Full About please

[heron]

Hello, This happens to me when running freecad the operating system uses the intel graphics card instead of the dedicated graphics card Nvidia.

To change this you have to set freecad in the Graphic performance preference of the Windows settings

settingsCardWin.gif (997.51 KiB) Viewed 1005 times

This solves the problem in my side.

This configuration can also be set from the control panel of the Nvidia card, if you also have Nvidia and are interested I could show you how, but the result is the same.

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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.30430 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 9e1ed4a68ad43309c2b38f7f5efbb1feac4323cb
Python 3.8.13, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US) [ OS: English/United States (en_US) ]
Installed mods: 
  * Assembly4 0.12.4
  * BIM 2021.12.0
  * Curves 0.5.8
  * DynamicData 2.46.0
  * ExtremeProDark 2.0.0
  * ExtremeProDark.backup1663693999.0253184
  * fasteners 0.4.6
  * fcgear 1.0.0
  * Help 1.0.3
  * InvGears 0.1.2
  * Manipulator 1.4.9
  * ProDarkThemePreferencePack 1.0.0
  * ProDarkThemePreferencePack.backup1663694123.8106258
  * ratchetWB 0.1.0
  * Render 2022.2.0
  * sheetmetal 0.2.57
  * Woodworking 0.20.29177

[Palmtree]

Hello, This happens to me when running freecad the operating system uses the intel graphics card instead of the dedicated graphics card Nvidia.
To change this you have to set freecad in the Graphic performance preference of the Windows settings
settingsCardWin.gif
This solves the problem in my side.

@heron, I am sorry for the late response and thank you for your input, I have attached your list of steps from the Spanish forum (nice/short):

Settings \ System \ Display \ Graphics settings \ Graphics performance preferences \ Choose an application to set the preference \ Browse \ Search for freecad, if it doesn't come up search for freecad.exe \ Add. Once you have it added, click on Options and choose High performance and Save, so when you run freecad it pulls the GPU.

I follow your recommended setting (also I have restarted Window, after the new setting, Image 1) → Unfortunately it did NOT work → NO LUCK