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conformal / spectrwm

A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
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steam game disconnects when workspace not visible #141

Closed aeosynth closed 7 years ago

aeosynth commented 8 years ago

when i connect to a dota 2 game, if i switch workspaces while the game is loading, i end up disconnecting from the game. is spectrwm giving non-visible apps less resources somehow?

LordReg commented 8 years ago

Windows on hidden workspaces are put into an iconic state. Maybe the game doesn't like being iconified while loading. It may be hanging in a loop waiting for its window to be mapped only to have the connection time out. I wouldn't be surprised if the Source 2 engine has some ICCCM and/or EWMH compliance issues given the issues I have discovered with Steam. Are you running the game fullscreen or windowed? Also, did you try reproducing the issue in any other window managers?

aeosynth commented 8 years ago

i'm running the game in 'desktop friendly fullscreen'. i tried bspwm and i3, they did not have this problem. is there a simple way to check if iconifying is the issue?

LordReg commented 8 years ago

I just tried dota2 and 'desktop friendly fullscreen' seems to work fine with 'Desktop-friendly fullscreen minimizes on focus loss' unchecked. Also, I have 'Use my monitor's current resolution' selected. I only tried watching a game and it connected fine, even when it was connecting while on a non-visible workspace or iconified using Mod-w. Are you using different settings? What version of spectrwm are you running?

LordReg commented 8 years ago

Is this still an issue?

aeosynth commented 8 years ago

i switched to bspwm because of this. try enabling 'minimize on focus loss'.