I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a laptop, and I’m having a two-sided issue. Web searches have yielded no solution. I’m also very new to Linux.
Problem 1: When alt-tabbing out of a fullscreen application (at this moment, Helldivers 2), the application will minimize, but I cannot restore it. It will appear for roughly half a second, and then re-minimize. I can hear the game still running in the background.
I have tried alt-tab, super+number, and right-click>restore. None seem to work.
I have tried disabling thumbnails for windows, no fix.
Disabling effects, no fix.
Problem 2: As a workaround for problem 1, I tried borderless fullscreen. It works, but there is a white, 1 px border around the screen. I have tried changing themes, no fix. Same thing with disabling effects. I do like the Mint-Y theme, but there’s no longer an option to change window borders, from what I’ve researched. Again, trying a different theme didn’t seem to get rid of the white border.
Please help.
I have also experienced your first problem. It’s probably that the game bugs out in some way. apparently gamescope helps to fix it, bit I wasn’t able to get it to work on an nvidia based system.
Unfortunately, it looks like gamescope just isn’t going to work for my system.
I’ll take a look into that. This laptop is using one of those hybrid Nvidia GPUs, so it took me a bit to work out the performance issues at first.