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Hey guys, the only problem I have while running League of Legends (besides not being able to buy RP) is, I can't alt tab out of the game. I can switch to a different workspace (using cinnamon on Linux Mint 14), but it will leave the in game mouse, and the League of Legends game window will still be active, even though it is on a seperate workspace.

have you tried the borderless window and see if that help any in video settings ?

I've tried borderless. Doesn't help. I also tried changing it to windowed, but because I'm locked into the game, I can't move the window to the correct position.

Maybe in Wine Configuration in the Configure tab in POL, you could uncheck the boxes for window management and decoration? That could help.

That kind of worked. It's getting there. Alt-tab and swapping workspaces now works, but when I alt-tab and pick a different window, it just swaps right back to League. Same thing for swapping to a different workspace, even if it doesn't have the game in that workspace. I can't escape it.

Disable mouse-warp override?

PlayOnLinux -> Configure -> Select virtual drive -> Miscellaneous tab -> Mouse warp override

Found out that unchecking the window management was what was making it jump to the active workspace, and always be on top. It was even doing it in the client, along with in game. Disabling mouse warp didn't do anything.

Ah. hmmmmm. Im not sure at this point, then.

Yea I don't know either. League is the only game it will do it to. Guild Wars 2, for instance, and every other game I have installed actually, works fine while alt-tabbing and swapping workspaces.

What Desktop Environment are you using? Like, which flavour of Linux are you running? Ubuntu?

Linux Mint 14 using cinnamon.

Hmmmm. Im not sure if that would have an effect (just started playing with Cinnamon recently). I may install Mint this weekend (I work today) in a virtual machine and give it a shot to see if it does the same thing to me.

Ok thanks. I have no idea why only League of Legends is affected.

So I've discovered something. I can now not alt tab out of any game once it becomes the active window. I found this out when I tried to get out of Guild Wars 2 last night to answer message on skype.

And as for league, as long as I don't click on the game, I can alt tab. But that'll only work for the loading screen since I need to click to play :P

Well, just use the hotkey to open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T on my Lubuntu) and the cursor should go back to normal.

Edited by Romen

Well that didn't work. I had to hotkey the terminal window to another workstation. The mouse didn't return to normal and I couldn't close out of the terminal with the league mouse :P

Edited by izberion

i don't know if it's too late to post a reply here, but i too had the same situation where i could not alt-tab from league once it starts loading the game.

but i have managed to fix it. here's how i did: once in loading screen or in game, hit "alt+space" twice or until window menu shows up, then from "layer" choose "normal". that did it. at least for me.

i also disabled window decoration thing in wine configuration, but kept window manager ticked.

hope this helps!!

I had the same problem with StarCraft 2 with Wine (not POL, but I doubt that makes much of a difference here). I solved it by opening Wine Configuration (winecfg), and in the Graphics tab, checking "Show a virtual desktop". I set the resolution size of the virtual desktop to the same as my regular desktop (which in my case is the same as the game resolution). This allows me to alt-tab between the game and any other tab, without the game freezing.