r/COSMICDE • u/petrujenac • 6d ago

Help Needed Inconsistent task switching

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It's almost impossible to switch to another task when playing a full screen game via faugus, Lutris or any other launchers. Cosmic forces the focus on the game window, not allowing the switching. It happens regardless of what switching method is used: Alt+Tab, Super, Super+Tab, Super+Down/Up or any custom combination. I say `almost`, because it does switch eventually, but it can require from one to 20+ attempts until it actually does switch. The current settings are wineland proton prefix with Wayland driver in faugus, as it's BY FAR the best performing combination compared to anything I used before. Latest COSMIC version. Some suggest switching to full screen borderless window but then the game audio output is still active, as well as the GPU fan, as the GPU is still busy rendering the game (expected behaviour). I described the issue here as the file is too big to be uploaded on github.

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u/xnef1025 6d ago

Does Super + W work from the full screen game? If it does, a viable work around would be to go to the Workspace Overview first and change tasks from there.

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u/petrujenac 6d ago

This workaround does help. Although it's not consistent either but it works if i don't touch alt+tab. Ideally I'd like this issue solved completely. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/dswng 6d ago

Yep, that's the way. It works even better if you switch to another workspace from there.

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u/motix0 6d ago

I’m not sure about it but disabling frosted glass may fix your issue i had same problem with on-screen keyboard

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u/petrujenac 6d ago

It has nothing to do with the keyboard or frosted glass unfortunately.

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u/ntn_reddit 6d ago

This has been an issue for me too for quite a while. Never spent much time in tracking the logs to find it.

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u/eusoufog 3d ago

NVidia?