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Bug 409111 - Keyboard Shortcuts Not Working With Fullscreen Games
Keyboard Shortcuts Not Working With Fullscreen Games
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344059
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-18 00:04 UTC by Jan Niklas Hasse (Account disabled)
Modified: 2007-02-18 00:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Jan Niklas Hasse (Account disabled) 2007-02-18 00:04:21 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When a game is in fullscreen keyboard shortcuts defined in gnome-keybinds-properties are not working. I know it's maybe gnome-specific but i didn't know where to put this in. It's very annoying when you a playing games and can't minimize them or tuning the sound's volume up or down.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a fullscreen game like BZFlag
2. Try to press a shortcut like ALT + TAB
3. Get depressed

Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
german thread: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/viewtopic.php?p=586635
launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/63245
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2007-02-18 00:13:50 UTC 
This is because the games grab the keyboard and/or mouse, causing X to not even notify metacity whether keypresses are occurring.  Fixing this basically means that X will need to be modified.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 344059 ***