switch widows in linux

The game might override the WM settings. Thus, I was playing in window mode all time. note that, you are free to resize the Window while you are playing( I do alt+middle mouse button).

But it depend on the Window Manager /Desktop of your choice. KDE use alt+ right click to resize.

Well one thing I like is alt-tab when in windowed mode it works much faster than in windows fullscreen. Unfortunately you need to use normal window manager also run spring in windowed mode + fullscreen it. I use openbox it automatically on lauch makes spring fullscreen so alt-tab + all multimedia schortcuts works nice. For other wms just make schortcut for fullscreen, KDE kwin is advanced too you probably can make it autofullscreen too. For gnome's metacity it should be harder because everything is so "simple".

Another fine solution if you are tech savvy is to run another xorg server on another tty and run the game there, (you can set default xorg screen/server with some environment var, don't remember which) and you don't really need a WM on that screen, but you can use one if you like. Since the 2 xorgs are separate tty you can easily switch with kernel switch ctrl+alt+Fwhichever. You can make all this into 1 nice bash script that launches xorg -> game(with new default screen) -> closses new xorg. Unfortunately this is a problem with both SDL(the library spring uses) and the game itself, since SDL lets apps full control of input and as such locks away WM from getting any, spring being not the wisest of sorts does not take precautions to let the WM still listen. I once thought about making a dummy SDL lib that would provide the same ABI but do the necessary hooks so that the WM doesnt get pushed out of action (since i dont use linux currently for games, i have not seen this idea through).

thanks Eximius, that seems a nice solution. but when i playing in fullscreen mode, i sometimes switch to ctrl+alt+Fn, and then could not go back to the game, or only sounds, no graphic. that is the new problem.

I had install openbox, but it can not startup, i am looking for what problems.

THX

it OK, openbox suport alt+tab to switch. thanks! 谢谢！