https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37937
Bug ID: 37937 Summary: Fullscreen applications are minimized when switching virtual desktops / workspaces Product: Wine Version: 1.7.32 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: winehq@tibit.com Distribution: ---
A recent wine release broke my ability to easily switch between a full-screen game and other tasks, because it now forcibly minimizes the game when it loses focus.
I used to be able to quickly flip back and forth between the game and a strategy guide, documentation, text editor full of notes on my progress, email, etc, using my desktop software's hot keys for switching workspaces. Now, returning to my game involves the incredibly irritating experience of having to find the game's icon on the task bar, grab my mouse, move it toward the task bar icon, aim, and click, every single time I want to return to the game.
On top of being quite frustrating, this makes it very difficult to do things like compare what's on screen in the game to screenshots or maps, which are common operations when troubleshooting graphics issues or exploring an open world game.
A git bisect reveals the problem commit:
45d530461bf29c953f5f4532cc0e917b4c4fc296 is the first bad commit commit 45d530461bf29c953f5f4532cc0e917b4c4fc296 Author: Stefan Dösinger stefan@codeweavers.com Date: Thu Nov 13 20:39:25 2014 +0100
This has effectively broken the utility of virtual desktops / workspaces.
Would someone revert this, please? Or make it configurable? Or at the very least, make it smart enough to avoid minimizing the game when a focus loss is due to a workspace switch instead of something like alt+tab?
For the record, I'm running xfce on linux.