On 10/27/2012 09:46 PM, dave wrote: > In the year 2012, of the month of October, on the 27th day, rob wrote: >> On 26/10/12 14:58, Dave wrote: >>> All the recent talk about fullscreen games on the gnome wm-spec-list >>> maillist has reminded me of an issue I've been experiencing. >>> >>> I usually start games from a terminal prompt. Whenever I start some >>> fullscreen games, the input focus does not switch from the terminal to the >>> game. If I start the game in windowed mode, keyboard works perfectly fine, >>> as you'd expect. >>> >>> If I switch from windowed to fullscreen mode, through the in-game >>> options, >>> keyboard is fine. But, if the game starts up directly in fullscreen, >>> anything I type is sent to the terminal I run the game from. >>> >>> Has anyone experienced this before? Happens with Super Meat Boy and >>> Bit.Trip Runner. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> dave.k >> >> Yes but intermittently. Some occasions switching to a console (Ctrl >> -Alt-F*), to kill the program, and back to Xorg to try again resolves >> the issue. It seems as though X loses input focus to the console? >> Running some console-type, e.g links, programs under Xorg sometimes >> result in the same problem. >> Running via gdb previously showed E17 working normally with no errors. >> >> rob > > Thanks for the feedback. No need for me to switch to the console to kill > the program. I just have to hit ctrl-c. Input is still going to the > terminal I start the game with. > > I tried restarting the game half a dozen times, but the focus never worked. > The only thing that works is to start in windowed mode, and then switch to > fullscreen. Or, just staying in a window, which is what I usually do. > > dave.k
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