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

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

--- Comment #9 from Stefan Dösinger <stefan at codeweavers.com> ---
(In reply to Forest from comment #8)
> It temporarily filled my screen with a Windows desktop while starting the
> games. This didn't really break the game, but it sure was ugly, and IMHO a
> step backwards in terms of integration.
Ya, it's probably not ideal, but I don't see this as a huge problem since your
desktop will be filled by the game in a few seconds anyway.

> For games that don't run at my desktop's native resolution, it ran the game
> in a window, defeating the purpose of running full-screen.  (I guess this is
> what you expected would happen.)
Yes. You can try to set your screen resolution to the game res before starting
Wine with xrandr (e.g. with a startup script). I haven't tested it myself, but
I think it'll do what you want.

In your use case you have a problem in the old way as well. E.g. I'm running
Starcraft 1 at 640x480. Now I switch to desktop 2 to check the strategy map,
and I'm happy it stays at 640x480 to match maps. Now I receive a mail and want
to access my Thunderbird on desktop 3. In 640x480?

Minimizing the game and restoring the screen resolution on focus loss is what
Windows does. We don't have to copy every user interface design decision from
Windows, but in this case it is required (see e.g. the Thunderbird at 640x480
case, also some games wait for the unminimize message to resume operation, bug
23745 may be related to that) and a feature users generally ask for (bugs
15357, 18027). Thus reverting the patch is not the way to go.

Making this a registry key or winecfg option is potentially possible, but we'll
need a bigger number of requests for this to justify adding an option,
especially since the virtual desktop feature provides this pretty well.

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