Change window focus without minimizing a fullscreen app

videogames101

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Aug 24, 2005
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I'm running a fullscreen counter strike window on one of 2 monitors, and i want to be able to interact with windows on the other monitor with cs:s minimizing, because thats what it does whenever I change the window focus from it. (standard behavior of fullscreen windows) How do i prevent it from minimizing whenever it losses window focus?
 

ShawnD1

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May 24, 2003
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All you do is make the game not "grab" the mouse. If you hit Esc, you should be able to move the mouse to the second monitor. I know this works for GTA San Anadreas. For games that don't grab the mouse, such as World of Warcraft, the mouse freely moves from the game to other windows.

edit: This also works for windowed mode. Just hit escape and you can move the mouse away from CS/Doom/TF2