Idea #10374: Alt+Tab should minimize fullscreen applications.

Written by Nxx the 27 Jun 08 at 12:43. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Often you play a game and need temporarily swotch to another task. There should be a shortcut to minimize a fullscreen application to free the desktop.

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Kryptt wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 16:13

This is one of the reasons i still prefer gaming on Windows..
Sadly

Niedzwiedz wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 16:48

Try to go to another Workspace ;)

eapache wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 02:11

This is more a problem with one of the main graphics libraries on Linux (SDL). It grabs ALL the keyboard keys regardless of who else is using them, so the desktop can't tell when the key combo is pressed. Somebody ought to pass this along upstream though.

twelvedogs wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 05:46

I just use ctrl-alt-right arrow to switch to a new workspace, works pretty well.

Nxx wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 10:25

Well, I just tried ctrl-alt-right arrow while playing Counter-Strike and it does not switch me to a free desktop.

twelvedogs wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 12:30

Yah, looks like it doesn't work to well with hl2 at least, i'd say that there's no easy way to minimise most wine games without causing issues. wow seems to work ok if you mess with the windowing settings a bit in the wow config.

olskar wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 18:10

ctrl+alt+d ?

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