Weird, I swear I replied to your comment... It doesn't seem to have shown up. Anyway:
There are two issues with your comment: 1. There is no shortcut enabled there by default. 2. It doesn't work. This is because when a full-screen game takes control of the keyboard, basically it eats all the keyboard events except a few special X ones (ctrl-alt-backspace -- if it weren't disabled by ubuntu, and ctrl-alt-F1 et al). They key presses never make it to gnome's shortcut handler. This is most certainly a bug (or at least a horrible usability one, akin to cooperative multitasking). The game I've tested this with is Gratuitous Space Battles, but it should work with virtually every full- screen game, e.g. the many quake-based ones. Some of them make have special alt-tab/alt-f4 handling code, but I guarantee if you set a weird shortcut for "toggle fullscreen" it will not work! Thanks for the interest in this bug though -- I'm surprised nobody has been pissed off at it over the many years of its existence to provide a fix. But then I guess there aren't many decent games for linux! Cheers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905009 Title: If a full-screen game crashes there is no way to recover. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/905009/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
