From: rob <ro...@re...> - 2012-10-27 11:42:42
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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 |