Kelbesq

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[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I gave it another look after you comment. I cannot find the advanced button. There really are not many user interactive options in my menu, except in the profile space =/. I've seen other report the menus missing as well.

Either it hiding in plain sight, and I am derp'ing hard, it's so buried I can't find it, or it's completely missing on my end.

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Good to know general knowledge. The game is clearly still running in the back ground when I swap workspaces, so no real chance for the it get confused.

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You comment led me down another rabbit hole: I don't have that setting in my control panel, and apparently am missing several whole sections. An extra detail: I'm using a laptop with both integrated and discrete graphics. I tried launching a game and seeing if more settings would show up, but that didn't seem to work. Apparently they are only consistent with an attached monitor.

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

This has been working so far! Thanks for the suggestion. (I've had the same problem in more than 1 game).

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I’ll give it a try. I’ve seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.

Thanks. I think this it best general answer (don't solve my specific problem, but for sure answers how to best get help.)

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've tried every key combo I could think of, and it didn't seem to help. However I started using super-D to swap workspaces instead, and I have not hit the problem so far.

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

From my many decades of windows gaming, I always run in borderless window mode if I think I need/want to tab out.

I'm running on a laptop, but it's fairly high end: 13th gen i9, 4070, 64GB of RAM, and only a SSD.

[–] Kelbesq@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I'll give it a try. I've seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.

 

I've had a problem in several games, and I don't really no where to to being debugging it. It's not like there is any error message. Is it my DE? my distro? drivers? proton? the game engine itself?

I've done some basic web searches, and all of the answers are hyper specific, or "alt-tab just breaks some times".

The actual problem: When I alt-tab, some games will appear to freeze when I tab back in. I've noticed that while I am holding alt-tab and have a non-game window selected, the game is not frozen. As long as have not selected the window I am trying to swap to, it keeps running. It's almost as if the game has inverted it's internal state of whether it's in the foreground are not.

(if it does matter, I am using Gnome on 22.04 PopOS, Nvidia 565 driver, Steam/Proton).