Leonardo: That's a good idea, but it would never work due to the fact
that the entire issue here is that Ubuntu allows apps to take control of
the entire keyboard.

No special key combinations or multimedia keys are serviced by the
window manager when full-screen games are running, so the only key
combinations that work are those serviced by the OS and maybe the
session manager.

The real fix is to mimic the behavior of other OSes in not allowing
full-screen applications to completely override the window manager's
keyboard handler. Unfortunately this is an X.Org issue, and they're
probably never going to fix it because they just don't understand why
they should have to.

Ubuntu will never be taken seriously as a desktop gaming platform until
this is resolved. Maybe Valve will fix it for them as part of trying to
make Ubuntu into a Steam platform :)

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  Volume keys don't work inside a full-screen game

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