I’ve had a problem in several games, and I don’t really no where to to being debugging it. It’s not like there is any error message. Is it my DE? my distro? drivers? proton? the game engine itself?
I’ve done some basic web searches, and all of the answers are hyper specific, or “alt-tab just breaks some times”.
The actual problem: When I alt-tab, some games will appear to freeze when I tab back in. I’ve noticed that while I am holding alt-tab and have a non-game window selected, the game is not frozen. As long as have not selected the window I am trying to swap to, it keeps running. It’s almost as if the game has inverted it’s internal state of whether it’s in the foreground are not.
(if it does matter, I am using Gnome on 22.04 PopOS, Nvidia 565 driver, Steam/Proton).
It could be a game issue. I remember a lot of games had issues with alt-tabbing back when I used windows. It could also be a Wine issue. I had one game that started freezing when alt-tabbing after a Wine update a couple months ago. Rolling back to the previous version fixed it.