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Title: How to have game minimized?
Post by: hitman on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 19:09:10 PM

Hi, is there any way to join a server (empty) and make the game minimized so I could do something else with the PC? I seem to hijack everything, even the power button doesn't work when the game is launched.

Running Ubuntu 17.04.

Thanks

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: Possessed on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 19:21:21 PM

play in windowed mode. not sure if it works in linux, but try Alt + Enter to go to windowed mode and Alt + Tab, click else where and then minimize the window. to go back to fullscreen press alt + enter again.

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: hitman on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 19:27:41 PM

Alt + Enter works, thanks, but Alt + Tab does not. Can't click anywhere either. Is there some setting to launch the game minimized? Or stop it from hijacking keyboard?

Quote from: Possessed on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 19:21:21 PM

play in windowed mode. not sure if it works in linux, but try Alt + Enter to go to windowed mode and Alt + Tab, click else where and then minimize the window. to go back to fullscreen press alt + enter again.

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: Possessed on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 22:37:51 PM

try either:
Ctrl + G or Ctrl+Alt+G or CTRL+ALT+→ or CTRL+ALT+← or Alt + ESC

 :D

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 07:21:40 AM

I've had the same issue in the passed. I've never fixed it. I first thought it was because I was running 25Assist as Super User, but that was not the case as running armyops-bin without without sudo had the same result.

The only key combination I could get to work when I tried it (last year (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40242285/linux-capture-keystrokes-from-inside-sudo-gui)), was Ctrl+Alt+F1 to Ctrl+Alt+F6 to switch to a command line interface.

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: hitman on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 10:43:00 AM

Thanks for reminding about tty console. I asked a question on AskUbuntu, please press Upvote! https://askubuntu.com/questions/969100/how-to-force-minimize-an-application-when-keyboard-is-hijacked

Quote from: teddy_grizzly_bear on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 07:21:40 AM

I've had the same issue in the passed. I've never fixed it. I first thought it was because I was running 25Assist as Super User, but that was not the case as running armyops-bin without without sudo had the same result.

The only key combination I could get to work when I tried it (last year (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40242285/linux-capture-keystrokes-from-inside-sudo-gui)), was Ctrl+Alt+F1 to Ctrl+Alt+F6 to switch to a command line interface.

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: Possessed on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 13:20:25 PM

Try:
Option 1:
Bind it to some shortcut key:
System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts
pick a key, as command add:

Code: [Select]

xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize(If you are using Compiz you can set custom keyboard and mouse shortcuts using CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager) and the Commands plugin.)

Option 2:
Make a "minimize.sh"

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/bash
xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize
#if this does not work, use the other command below by removing the "#" and add "#" to the command above.
#xdotool windowminimize $(xdotool getactivewindow)
exec $SHELL
After that use chmod to make this file executable:

Code: [Select]

sudo chmod 744 minimize.shBind it to some shortcut key:
System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts
pick a key, as command add:

Code: [Select]

bash /full/path/to/minimize.sh <edit the correct path
Optional keybinding:
using xbindkeys-config
If you do not have xbindkeys:

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xbindkeys-confighttp://xahlee.info/linux/linux_xbindkeys_tutorial.html (http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_xbindkeys_tutorial.html)

Title: Re: How to have game minimized?
Post by: hitman on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 14:08:47 PM

Have not tried it yet, but since non of the shortcuts defined in Keyboard Shortcuts work, wouldn't that mean that I can't actually set a custom shortcut that would not be hijacked? Maybe xbindkeys.

Btw, your answer with xdotools is simplier than the one askubuntu asnwer with getactivewindow, thanks

Quote from: Possessed on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 13:20:25 PM

Try:
Option 1:
Bind it to some shortcut key:
System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts
pick a key, as command add:

Code: [Select]

xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize(If you are using Compiz you can set custom keyboard and mouse shortcuts using CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager) and the Commands plugin.)

Option 2:
Make a "minimize.sh"

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/bash
xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize
#if this does not work, use the other command below by removing the "#" and add "#" to the command above.
#xdotool windowminimize $(xdotool getactivewindow)
exec $SHELL
After that use chmod to make this file executable:

Code: [Select]

sudo chmod 744 minimize.shBind it to some shortcut key:
System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts
pick a key, as command add:

Code: [Select]

bash /full/path/to/minimize.sh <edit the correct path
Optional keybinding:
using xbindkeys-config
If you do not have xbindkeys:

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xbindkeys-confighttp://xahlee.info/linux/linux_xbindkeys_tutorial.html (http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_xbindkeys_tutorial.html)