vitamin wrote: > > j0nnyf1ve wrote: > > When I return to the game from the desktop, I am unable to use the alpha keys on my keyboard. > > Are you running those games in virtual desktop, window or full screen mode? > > Any key combination that are different from standard [alt]-[tab] & Co will break most windows games in regards to loosing focus. Thank you for the response. I guess I am not understanding what you mean. For whatever reason, the alt-tab combo does not work in WoW or Rift. I do not have anything else bound to this shortcut in Gnome. Consequently, I created a new keyboard shortcut to close all windows and go to the desktop - Alt F1. So I hit this shortcut and then surf the web, update mp3s, etc. When I return to the game, certain keys do not work....but others do. I am clueless as to why this is happening. To be clear, this was previously working before. I created a new wine prefix for Rift and the problem still persists. Any ideas as to what I could check? I am have tried running the games in fullscreen and windowed and the problem still exists. Thanks for the help.