Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

Drumitar · 2011-07-15 03:44:43

when i play urbanterror game either in fullscreen or window'd mode, i cant alt-tab out of the game, when i do it seperates the in game cursor from the desktop cursor.

kolos · 2011-07-15 21:58:47

i had a bunch of problems with enemy territory in gnome too, now i just open another X for the game with "xinit /usr/bin/enemy-territory -- :1" (change enemy-territory with urbanterror). With that you can move between them with ctrl+alt+F7 and ctrl+alt+F8 without problems

Drumitar · 2011-07-18 07:49:46

yeh i do the same but hopefully this bug gets reported, i like to use teamspeak, and its a pain when i open Urban Terror in a new X, i cant use my push to talk key from the other session.

Duckter · 2012-08-17 02:08:08

Did you ever find a fix for this?

I stumbled across this looking for a fix without much luck initially until... what I have found that seems to work for me at least is this...

When running the game fullscreen then tabbing out and going back in you get the mouse pointer appearing in the game window (which now has the border decorations - ie not true fullscreen) and cannot move beyond where it hits the edges of the screen.

To fix it...
1) press alt+enter to maximise the screen again
2) press alt+enter once more to bring the screen back to windowed mode
3) now press ~ to bring down the console - this should steal the mouse focus back
4) close the console and press alt+tab to go back into the game with proper mouse focus

Hope that works for you and anyone else with the same problem

ierpe · 2015-02-05 15:50:52

Thanks @Duckter it works for me!

jasonwryan · 2015-02-05 20:02:32

Please don't necrobump https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27 especially with an empty post.

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#1 2011-07-15 03:44:43

Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

#2 2011-07-15 21:58:47

Re: Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

#3 2011-07-18 07:49:46

Re: Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

#4 2012-08-17 02:08:08

Re: Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

#5 2015-02-05 15:50:52

Re: Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

#6 2015-02-05 20:02:32

Re: Gnome 3 Fullscreen game alt-tab problem

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