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kamagurka Veteran
Joined: 25 Jan 2004 Posts: 1026 Location: /germany/munich
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: minimizing/switching out of games |
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specifically enemy-territory:
i use fluxbox, and as soon as i start up et all the keybindings i specified in fluxbox dont work anymore, wich means i cant alt-tab out of the game or minimize it or anything. there is no way i know of short of killing the game to return to desktop; this can be pretty annoying.
any ideas? _________________ If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today.
--Spider Jerusalem, the Word |
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mwm2000 n00b
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 26
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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my solution to this problem is to run two copies of x at once (I havent noticed any performance penalties in doing this, I use fluxbox for my gaming desktop). so I can just <ALT>+<CTRL>+<F7> to change my gnome desktop (or whatever) then I can just <ALT>+<CTRL>+<F8> to put me back in what ever game im in. I have also found this to be very useful when running stuff with wine as quite often it screws up your desktop so this way if it does no big deal.
I use the following command to start my second x session:
startx -- :1 -depth 16 _________________ Matt |
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Moled l33t
Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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alt + enter
open console
mouse freedom :] |
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kamagurka Veteran
Joined: 25 Jan 2004 Posts: 1026 Location: /germany/munich
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Moled wrote: | alt + enter
open console
mouse freedom :] |
thats true to the point that i have mouse freedom. however, since i cant get BACK into et, i might as well kill the game... _________________ If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today.
--Spider Jerusalem, the Word |
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Thulle n00b
Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 70
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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i would love a solution to this one:) |
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FormerSlacker Guru
Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 340 Location: Toronto, ON. Canada
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:01 am Post subject: |
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As mwm pointed out, simply run et in another xserver. At that point, you can switch back and forth between your desktop and your game as many times as you heart desires |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 479 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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ForumSlacker:
Would mwm2000's solution would with an .xinitrc to start the second session for Wine?
If so, I'd love to be able to simply ctrl-alt-f7/f8 to switch as needed |
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_______0 Guru
Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 521
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Moled wrote: | alt + enter
open console
mouse freedom :] |
Intriguing, what does "alt + enter" do?
Alt + enter don't do nothing here. |
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koopdi Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 100
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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In some W/M's alt + enter spawns a terminal shell.
It would be cool to figure out how to do this without starting yet another x server. I mean, my system /could/ run that fine but I'm going for minimalism nonetheless. |
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koopdi Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 100
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Running URT not in fullscreen but at the resolution of my monitor lets me alt+tab away from it and click back to it. That's satifactory for now. Maybe there is a way for the window manager to give explicit focus back to that process when in full screen. Will experiment more with that later. |
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