[Linux] Can't Alt-tab or change virtual deskop

[rychlis]

Hi,

first of all, I want to thank You very much for porting this awesome game to linux!

Unfortunately there is one issue which is common for many linux ports (but not for all of them, for example Heroes of Newerth doesn't have this issue) - when i launch the game, the only way to get out of it is to quit the game. Windows manager keyboard shortcuts like Alt-tab or ctrl+alt+arrow doesn't work, because the game is capturing whole keyboard/mouse input, even in windowed mode.

This is really frustrating, so for now I'm still playing the windows version through wine

Is there any workaround for this?
I'm using arch linux with gnome (kernel 2.6.38-ARCH x86_64, gnome 2.32.1, metacity 2.30.3).

Thanks for any help!

[alt_tuomas]

You can use Ctrl-G to grab/ungrab mouse input in windowed mode.

[rychlis]

You can use Ctrl-G to grab/ungrab mouse input in windowed mode.

Thank You, that works! I can finally ditch the windows version

Still, it would be nice to have this possibility in fullscreen mode as well, however for now i can just start the game windowed (with max resolution) and switch it to fullscreen using metacity keyb. shortcut.

[Beemer5770]

Use Alt-Enter to go from full to windowed, then Ctrl-G to take back the mouse. Alt-Enter on the game will make it full screen again.

Beemer

[kepi]

Thanks for tips!

It will be nice if there will be some possibility to run in windowed fullscreen. Sounds odd but this seems only way how to run trine ok on my dual head setup. i.e. World of warcraft has this possibility.

When I run Trine fullscreen, it appears in center of my two monitors so center of game is splitted with edge of monitor. Correct behaviour will be to run it on left or right monitor, not on whole screen. I'm able to play while turn into windowed mode but top window decorations are interrupting.

If you have any tip, let mi now. Unfortunatelly it seems that gnome-shell is unable to switch trine into fullscreen with ctrl+enter, other programs can without problem.

[KameZero]

Thanks for tips!

It will be nice if there will be some possibility to run in windowed fullscreen. Sounds odd but this seems only way how to run trine ok on my dual head setup. i.e. World of warcraft has this possibility.

When I run Trine fullscreen, it appears in center of my two monitors so center of game is splitted with edge of monitor. Correct behaviour will be to run it on left or right monitor, not on whole screen. I'm able to play while turn into windowed mode but top window decorations are interrupting.

If you have any tip, let mi now. Unfortunatelly it seems that gnome-shell is unable to switch trine into fullscreen with ctrl+enter, other programs can without problem.

Hmm, depending on how savvy you are you could change to a gnome/openbox setup. Having openbox as the actual WM allows you much more granular control over windows than gnome. I run a dual head setup and just use openbox settings to make the Trine window always open on my left monitor without any window decorations. This more or less makes it fullscreen. I do this for all of my games, actually.

[rewind]

To rychlis - I'm using a script on Arch for playing anything in new x-server at ctrl+alt+F8. You can try it from AUR - xlaunch. It's quite appropriate when running compiz and for alt+tab functionality, well actually ctrl+alt+F7 and ctrl+alt+F8 functionality

I was wondering - is there a way to change the default resolution in linux, maybe in some configuration file ?

[fb_joel]

(Sorry for the long delay.)

You should be able to change the resolutions in the launcher, or alternatively in the config/options.txt file. The launcher's options can probably be changed in data/misc/launcher_conf.txt as well if you really need to modify those defaults (not sure why but it should be possible).

I'm not 100% sure if this works in the Linux version, but you could try changing "maximize_window = 0" and "windowed = 0" properties in config/options.txt, and see if that achieves windowed mode with maximized window. It works in the Windows version but it's possible that it's been disabled in the Linux version intentionally.