wine users - Oct 2010 - Source games not letting me tab out.

Hi guys,

Up until recently, I've been able to tab out of Source engine games (L4D2,
TF2, and so forth) without a problem.  It's never given me an issue before,
so I can tab out and check for IMs and such.

However, recently it won't let me do so.  It may have been because I
reinstalled Lucid Lynx Ubuntu, but now if anything brings the taskbar to the
front, the game still runs but it won't let me refocus.  The taskbar stays
up, and the gamescreen shrinks ever-so-slightly, as if it is in a window-picker.

What could be doing this, any suggestions on how to fix it?  Other games seem to
work fine.

On 10/07/2010 04:34 PM, theShaggy wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Up until recently, I've been able to tab out of Source engine games
(L4D2, TF2, and so forth) without a problem.  It's never given me an issue
before, so I can tab out and check for IMs and such.
>
> However, recently it won't let me do so.  It may have been because I
reinstalled Lucid Lynx Ubuntu, but now if anything brings the taskbar to the
front, the game still runs but it won't let me refocus.  The taskbar stays
up, and the gamescreen shrinks ever-so-slightly, as if it is in a window-picker.
>
> What could be doing this, any suggestions on how to fix it?  Other games
seem to work fine
I don't know if it uses the Source engine or anything related to it, but 
Star Wars Galaxies does this to me now as well and did not used to 
(current wine 1.1.3). I don't have a fix, but a work around is to run 
the game on one desktop and everything else on another desktop, then 
switch desktops rather than tabbing out.

Just an update - when it does this, I can right-click on the taskbar and select
"move."  This allows me to move the whole window around the screen and
use things underneath it, but otherwise it is entirely unresponsive to mouse
clicks.

Any thoughts?