[Bug 37937] New: Fullscreen applications are minimized when switching virtual desktops / workspaces

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37937

            Bug ID: 37937
           Summary: Fullscreen applications are minimized when switching
                    virtual desktops / workspaces
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.32
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: winehq at tibit.com
      Distribution: ---

A recent wine release broke my ability to easily switch between a full-screen
game and other tasks, because it now forcibly minimizes the game when it loses
focus.

I used to be able to quickly flip back and forth between the game and a
strategy guide, documentation, text editor full of notes on my progress, email,
etc, using my desktop software's hot keys for switching workspaces. Now,
returning to my game involves the incredibly irritating experience of having to
find the game's icon on the task bar, grab my mouse, move it toward the task
bar icon, aim, and click, every single time I want to return to the game.

On top of being quite frustrating, this makes it very difficult to do things
like compare what's on screen in the game to screenshots or maps, which are
common operations when troubleshooting graphics issues or exploring an open
world game.

A git bisect reveals the problem commit:

45d530461bf29c953f5f4532cc0e917b4c4fc296 is the first bad commit
commit 45d530461bf29c953f5f4532cc0e917b4c4fc296
Author: Stefan Dösinger <stefan at codeweavers.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 20:39:25 2014 +0100

This has effectively broken the utility of virtual desktops / workspaces.

Would someone revert this, please? Or make it configurable? Or at the very
least, make it smart enough to avoid minimizing the game when a focus loss is
due to a workspace switch instead of something like alt+tab?

For the record, I'm running xfce on linux.

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