On 01 Aug 2002 19:19:18 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:48:36PM +0100, Andy Arbon wrote:
> >
> > I've got Quake 3 installed and it completely takes control of all mouse
> > an keyboard input while it's running, which is understandable most of
> > the time.
> >
> > What I'd like to know is if there is a way I can set a keystroke to
> > break out of Quake and back in to the normal desktop? I'm guessing this
> > all depends on whether FVWM gets taken out the loop completely while
> > Quake is running or whether it is cooperatively passing all input
> > through to it.
>
> There is no way for other X applications to receive keyboard input
> while another application has grabbed the keyboard exclusively.
> The only keystrokes that may work are the ones the X server handles
> directly, e.g. ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to a console and kill quake
> there.
I suggest to start an application that fully grabs X in a separate server.
Then just switch between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 although it may be
slow if a game consumes 100% of CPU. Just tried this with XFree86-4.2.0
and prboom, works ok. I remember XFree86-4.0.1 or so hanged when switching
from one server display to another or to a virtual console and back.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 13:07:22 BST