alt-tabbing

hudsonhauck · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 7:50 pm Post subject: alt-tabbing

I was playing warcraft on winex the other day, and I got Im'd (I forgot to put on an away message

) and I couldn't get back into the game! Is there a way to get back in? Thanks.

PS. I tried alt-tabbing like in windows and it circulated amongst all my programs that have windows EXCEPT warcraft.
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masseya · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 3:17 am Post subject:

I actually haven't got a clue how to do this, but perhaps it would help if you told us what window manager you were using since they respond to alt-tabs differently.
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hudsonhauck · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject:

fluxbox
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masseya · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 11:19 pm Post subject:

I don't think alt-tabbing will work with fluxbox because many games don't actually exist in a window. A good example of this is BillardGL. It draws a picture on the screen that is alt-tabbed to the background in KDE. You can then bring it to the front by clicking on the background. Perhaps if you played Warcraft in KDE it would work?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

ctrl-alt-f1 (or f2, f3 etc.) will take you to the correspoding console window. Might that be what you are looking for?
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hudsonhauck · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 2:55 am Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I guess I'm not understanding what is happening. Perhaps it is an oddity with winex. For me, alt-tabbing takes me to the next window. There is an option that determines if tabbed-to windows are active or not after the tabbing.
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hudsonhauck · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 4:32 am Post subject:

Nevermind. Its really no big deal. I'll just put on an away message from now on... :wink:

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peabody12 · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 36

this will create it in a window you can alt+tab too, but might give you issues w/ a task bar or something.
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koala · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2002 6:36 pm Post subject:

I had a similar problem running Q3. My solution is to start a new X (X :1) and run the game there. Now I can switch back and forth using ctrl+alt+f6/7

loki · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 36

Thats relly cool..

Is it possible to run a seperate login manager on X :1 ??

lol, nevermind I figured it out

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