[ioquake3] ALT+TAB on Linux

[Harley Laue]

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Nerius Landys wrote:
> Howdy.  I have 2 versions of ioquake3 installed, both versions on
> Windows and on Linux.  On other words I have 4 instances of ioquake3
> installed.  I am running Quake III Arena.  One version is the 1.34x
> pre-built and bundled which I downloaded from http://ioquake3.org and
> the other version (on both systems) is built from the current version in
> SVN.  On Windows I am able to ALT+TAB to my desktop on both versions of
> ioquake3, and on Linux I am not able to ALT+TAB on either version.  Is
> there something I need to do in my q3config.cfg to enable this feature? 
> Or something that can be done to the source code to make this feature
> built-in?  Please advise.  Thanks.  I'm putting together a bundle for an
> old Quake III mod.  Ironing out bugs/issues before I release.  Of
> course, the user installing this old mod will be required to provide
> pak0.pk3 from Quake III Arena.
> 
> - Rambetter

Try pressing ~ to open the console then try alt-tabbing.
IMO this should be correct behavior for most games since alt-tab could
be used for in game controls.
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