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jchomarat
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 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: Games and switching windows in Xfce |
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Hello all,
I am using XFCE as a WM, and when I play a games (Quake, RCTW etc...), it takes control of the mouse, and this is ok. However, I cannot switch to another window. I have to quit the game. ALT-TAB does not work. Is there a trick i don't know about?
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grover
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| Alt-Enter will switch to windowed mode. Ctrl-G releases / grabs the mouse. This is an X thing so it works under any window manager. |
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nephros
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I think the games grab the keyboard almost completely (and a good thing too, because combinations like Ctrl-w etc could trigger WM keyboard shortcuts).
What you could do however, is start another X server | Code: | X :1 &
xterm -display :1 |
switch to that server using Alt-F8 (usually) and run your fullscreen game from the xterm there.
You can then switch back to your desktop with Ctrl-Alt-F7.
It's a workaround not a fix, but it works quite nicely here.
HTH
[edit:]Thanks grover. Didn't know that. You never stop learning cool new stuff about Linux! 
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jchomarat
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Thanks guys, i'm at work now so i'll give a try tonight.
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jchomarat
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:48 am Post subject: |
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Yeap, it worked fine (ALT-ENTER and CTRL-G to grab/release the mouse), but only for RTCW. For quakeforge, it did not work. In quakeforge, there is an option to specify if we want the mouse to be grabbed, if we put this option off, it is quite pain to play.
Thanks anyway
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