Alt+Tab and other WM shortcuts not working while pointer is grabbed

[Frederik Nnaji]

thank you for finally speaking this out loud

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 21:58, Lasse Kärkkäinen <ljkarkk2 at cc.hut.fi> wrote:

> Once XGrabPointer() is called, the WM loses control not only of the mouse
> but also of the keyboard. Although there are situations where applications
> may require extended keyboard control as well (e.g. virtual machines and
> remote desktops), XGrabPointer is extensively used by games and other
> applications that simply require extended mouse control.


think of a flash movie playing in full screen.. ANY keypress event would
break the full screen experience here..


> One option to consider is adopting the Super key as a general WM
> accelerator key as an alternative to Alt. Since it is generally not used by
> any application software, keeping it to the WM would work rather well.
>

+1


> Another thing to consider is that most WM shortcuts should indeed be
> disabled for games. For example, Alt+drag is commonly used in RTS games for
> giving orders but currently that doesn't work without grabbing because the
> WM thinks that one is trying to move the window.
>

yes, this is extremely disturbing with creative applications such as
blender.


> So, can this problem finally be fixed, so that maybe 2011 would be the year
> of the Linux Desktop :-)


hope, pray, contribute ;)
already 2010 could be the year of FLOSS
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