why can’t I use ALT-TAB to minimize full screen sdl apps in linux like in
windows (e.g. leave the full screen app without exiting it or switching out of
X, do something useful, like read a walkthrough and then switch back to the
game)? alt-tabbing only works with windowed apps in linux. why isn’t this
feature implemented on linux too? I know it’s possible to manually achieve this
by doing togglefullscreen() and iconifywindow(), but this is too clumsy (and it
seems that only few games actually support minimizing like this).
Can’t you sdl developers please implement this feature so that minimizing full
screen apps is supported by default?
That feature you request is window manager dependent, the shortkey
Alt-Tab is not enabled in all the Linux window managers. Of course the
modern one try to adapt their hot keys to the facto standards ( Microsof
Windows ) , but this one is not default.
Doing what you wanna do is to close all the possibles configurations
that don’t respect the Ms Win configuration.
I think that the better way is to let the developer to do what he want
to do with his program.
PD:Not all the programs must be able to minimize/maximize.
what window manager are you using ? i am using xfce4 and alt tab worked
here while using my sdl app; just tested it.
mattOn Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:16:44 +0000 (UTC) juhani ?hman wrote:
why can’t I use ALT-TAB to minimize full screen sdl apps in linux
like in windows (e.g. leave the full screen app without exiting it or
switching out of X, do something useful, like read a walkthrough and
then switch back to the game)? alt-tabbing only works with windowed
apps in linux. why isn’t this feature implemented on linux too? I
know it’s possible to manually achieve this by doing
togglefullscreen() and iconifywindow(), but this is too clumsy (and
it seems that only few games actually support minimizing like this).
Can’t you sdl developers please implement this feature so that
minimizing full screen apps is supported by default?
oh, i only tried with windowed apps. if i need to switch while in full
screen, usually go fullscreen->windowed. but havent tested that in
sdl. i am still working on my core still and full screen is pointless
now.
mattOn Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:26:18 +0000 (UTC) juhani ?hman wrote:
I’m using KDE. alt+tab only works with windowed sdl apps.