[Vampirefo]

Is there anyway while playing game to switch the mouse from game to desktop. Basically playing game on small screen then switch from game to use program from desktop run scripts and such.


I know in virtualbox one can switch mouse from client to server.

[[DSG]Durandal]

If you're in a window... try hitting esc to bring up the menu and it should let you slide off the game screen into the window manager.

[Vampirefo]

I found out that if in full screen alt+tab does what I want.

[[DSG]Durandal]

Ah, you made it sound like you were in a window. I figured everyone since 1985 knew alt+tab works in every GUI OS to switch apps

fyi, if you put virtualbox into "seamless" mode, you don't have to switch from client to host ever... it just runs the apps in the main screen as if they were native. Pretty slick.

[Vampirefo]

Durandal DSG, on 12 February 2010 - 06:24 AM, said:

Ah, you made it sound like you were in a window. I figured everyone since 1985 knew alt+tab works in every GUI OS to switch apps

fyi, if you put virtualbox into "seamless" mode, you don't have to switch from client to host ever... it just runs the apps in the main screen as if they were native. Pretty slick.

Thanks for the info, Yes I was talking about a window mode, I tried what you said but was unable to get out of window, so I changed to fullscreen and used alt+tab which gave me what I wanted.

Also thanks for virtualbox tip.

[Yas]

in windowed mode, you can just press your console key "~" or "¬" and you can use your mouse on desktop again

[no|kbar]

or esc i thunk