Team Fortress 2 Forum

Ok,im really enjoying crossover considering its a much better decision than paying for a full version of winxp

but anyway i have a couple of lil things ive noticed when running tf2

1. i cant cmd + m in game or anything to switch between fullscreen and windowed, and if i use the ingame functions for this, it doesnt actually achieve windowed mode

2. i cant open my console in game (maybe im just a scrub, i dont know)

other than that it seems to run fine

any help would be appreciated

(much love for crossover)

for windowed mode, go to the tf2 icon on your my games menu, right click and choose the bottom most button, set launch options. from there, click the lower button again, and enter "-windowed" into the text bar (minus the quote marks.)

and for console, make sure you remembered to check mark the box in the advanced controls menu.

hope that helps, those work for me,

george

If you can't get the console to open using the in-game checkbox, try adding "-console" to the command line parameters.

As for on the fly window-fullscreen switching, this doesn't work right now unfortunately.

I think that enabling application switching from full screen should be a next high priority for development.

I'm just remembering all the times I would alt-tab on the PC and it seems like it was one of the features that I most used and I'm missing it in CX. It surely can't be that hard to implement.

Unfortunately fullscreen - window switching is tricky ☹️

There are two problems there: MacOS can't switch the title bar of a window on and off. Apps have to recreate the window to do that. On Windows, switching the title bar on the fly works fine. So we have to recreate the Mac window that represents the Windows window, which raises many technical issues and window management in general is a pain in the ass

Windows, Linux and Mac have a different understanding about who is responsible about reacting to those key presses, and how this reaction works. This may be solvable, but it is pretty tricky.