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Elronnd

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alt-tab doesn't work on GNOME
« on: September 18, 2016, 11:55:23 AM »
I'm running on linux, with wine, and everything seems to be running smoothly so far, except for one thing.  I'm not sure if this is a GNOME problem or a wine problem, but when I try to alt-tab to other windows, I'm actually "in" the other windows (to exit cogmind, I was able to ^c in the terminal I opened it from), but cogmind is still up on the screen.  Anyone know anything about this?  Any workarounds?
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Re: alt-tab doesn't work on GNOME
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2016, 12:13:07 PM »
Also, once I alt-tab out of cogmind, if I try to alt-tab back in, it stops accepting my inputs.  It plays very smoothly, though.
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Re: alt-tab doesn't work on GNOME
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2016, 12:06:08 PM »
Hey bud,

I'm running Cogmind, likewise in wine through ubuntu-unity (desktop).

This is a known thing with wine/unity: The work-around is:-

1. F1 (or ?,F12 iirc)
2. Click [4 - Options]
3. General [B - Fullscreen: OFF]

You can now fully Alt-Tab, as I'm doing right now between Cogmind and these forums.

That reminds me I need to optimize 'General [A - Font Set/Size] right now and report back to the linux thread http://http://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=182 (see: Support sub-forum)
« Last Edit: September 23, 2016, 12:11:24 PM by ukulele »
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Re: alt-tab doesn't work on GNOME
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2016, 09:10:24 PM »
Alright, cool, that worked.  Are there any plans to find the underlying cause?  Maybe a debugger could help?
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Re: alt-tab doesn't work on GNOME
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2017, 07:05:04 PM »
This would likely be a wine compatibility issue. You would have to consult the wine documentaton, or run it with strace to figure it out, as this probably works well with windows.

Worth noting that GDM sits on top of X. Alt tab is an implementation of Gnome. To my knowledge it is not natively supported by X. If I'm correct, this would be hard to account for in Wine as well.
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