Re: Mines 3.2.1: pausing broken

[Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>]

The reason this was removed was it was very unreliable - there were
issues with preference dialogs taking focus and pausing the game and
screenshot applications meaning you couldn't take a screenshot.  The
issue comes down to the fact that we only have window keyboard focus
to check, but we really want an "application focus" that the WM tells
us if we are the primary application or not.  This would be a good
addition to GtkApplication.

On 3 June 2012 07:01, scar <scar drigon com> wrote:
> Ronja Koistinen @ 05/14/2012 11:53 AM:
>>          Suggested fix: Revert to old behaviour and/or provide an
>> option in Settings for the user to choose whether to pause or not.
>
> i agree with adding a configurable option for pausing.  specifically i'm
> trying to get a screenshot of my game but am not allowed to... any ideas
> on how to achieve that now?  perhaps it is possible start a shell script
> that will pause a certain PID after a few seconds and then resume after
> 10 seconds or so?  that would give me enough time to re-focus the
> window, resume the game, take a screenshot, and then continue playing
> the game.  that sounds plausible maybe someone could let me know the
> code to do that?  thank you so much
>
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