Aquaria "captures" Mouse

[Aradalf]

While playing the game in windowed mode, Aquaria "captures" my mouse and I cannot move it outside of the game window. If i would like to do something for one minute without ending the game, I can't. In fullscreen mode, Aquaria also "captures" my mouse. Either way, i can't Alt + Tab either. Now, i don't really have a problem with this, but is their a specific key or option or setting that can be changed to make Aquaria stop "capturing" my mouse?

[Alphasoldier]

As far as I'm aware, you should be able to alt-tab just fine, besides that there's always;
Ctrl+alt+delete; Vista: Goes to special lockdown screen, where you can start Task Manager, Windows XP: just starts the Task Manager
Windows button/Ctrl+Escape; Opens up start menu
Windows button + D; Goes directly to desktop.

Besides that, no I don't think there's an option or key button press that makes Aquaria stop locking the mouse, it's how the game works.

[r_b_bergstrom]

I'm on a Mac, and I experience the same thing. At first I thought the windowed mode was pointless since I couldn't get the mouse outside of the window.

I eventually discovered that while the mouse is locked, my Wacom Bamboo tablet isn't. So now when I work on modding (for example) I plug in my tablet and can use it to easily swap back and forth between file editing and play testing.

[Aradalf]

As far as I'm aware, you should be able to alt-tab just fine, besides that there's always;
Ctrl+alt+delete; Vista: Goes to special lockdown screen, where you can start Task Manager, Windows XP: just starts the Task Manager
Windows button/Ctrl+Escape; Opens up start menu
Windows button + D; Goes directly to desktop.

Besides that, no I don't think there's an option or key button press that makes Aquaria stop locking the mouse, it's how the game works.

I'm using Linux, so none of those apply. And no I can't Alt + Tab.

[Alphasoldier]

It would've helped yourself if you actually pointed that out in your first post.
In fact it would've been an idea to say what your OS is at all, either way...

There's also for Linux:
Alt+Escape; Alternative for Alt-tab that doesn't give a list, but swaps instantly, guessing it won't work for you, but it could.
Alt+F9; Minimizes the game, (GNOME only)
Ctrl+Alt+D; Shows desktop
Alt+F1; Accesses applications, not sure if this'll help, thought I'd point it out anyway.
Ctrl+Esc; Again, though opens your task manager this time. (KDE)

Also, pretty much all I'm getting for the Mac is F11 and Cmd+M or Cmd+H, there's also the Mac's version of alt-tab which is Cmd+Tab.
Further than that I don't think I can help you guys.

[Aradalf]

It would've helped yourself if you actually pointed that out in your first post.
In fact it would've been an idea to say what your OS is at all, either way...

There's also for Linux:
Alt+Escape; Alternative for Alt-tab that doesn't give a list, but swaps instantly, guessing it won't work for you, but it could.
Alt+F9; Minimizes the game, (GNOME only)
Ctrl+Alt+D; Shows desktop
Alt+F1; Accesses applications, not sure if this'll help, thought I'd point it out anyway.
Ctrl+Esc; Again, though opens your task manager this time. (KDE)

Also, pretty much all I'm getting for the Mac is F11 and Cmd+M or Cmd+H, there's also the Mac's version of alt-tab which is Cmd+Tab.
Further than that I don't think I can help you guys.

Forgot to mention I'm using LXDE.
Alt + Escape: Doesn't work.
Alt + F9: Doesn't work.
Ctrl + Alt + D: Works, but doesn't work in-game.
Alt + F1: Doesn't work.
Ctrl + Esc: Opens the Start Menu, but doesn't work in-game.

In short, none of them work for me in-game. Any other suggestions? Also, do you know why this is happening?

[kbranch]

For what it's worth, I'm having this same problem with the Linux version.  I constantly tab out of just about anything I'm doing, and the way Aquaria currently handles input basically makes the game unplayable for me.

[Alphasoldier]

I guess playing it in windowed mode doesn't help... besides that I'm really at loss guys. I sadly enough don't have any linux onhand, so I can't help you all any more.
I'd suggest googling "can't altab linux games" or something, maybe they got more info. Finally as desperation you could always try to play it on Wine (Windows OS on Linux).

[kbranch]

A little bit of research seems to indicate that any application that grabs input has this problem.  My guess would be that X just decides not to intercept any input when an application explicitly grabs it.  A bit of a pain that it works like that, but I suspect an option within Aquaria to simply disable input grabbing would work around the issue well enough.  I'll give it a try in Wine for now.

Edit: Works fine in Wine so far.

[GMMan]

I can't remember if the icculus repository version of Aquaria had an unlock key built in. I've heard something about it, but I haven't verified myself. You can build it from scratch if it has the code in it.

(Building for Windows is easier than it seems at first. Get Dev-C++, update its binutils, install cmake, config, and use make to build. Something like that, I probably missed a couple of steps.

[achurch]

Ctrl-G will disable the input grab and allow you to move the mouse outside the window. (It's regrabbed next time the game window gets focus, but there's a patch to fix that in the source code repository: http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/aquaria)

[JesusFreke]

Ctrl-G will disable the input grab and allow you to move the mouse outside the window.

Works for me. Thanks! I could kiss you! This issue was highly annoying

[iProob]

It would've helped yourself if you actually pointed that out in your first post.
In fact it would've been an idea to say what your OS is at all, either way...

There's also for Linux:
Alt+Escape; Alternative for Alt-tab that doesn't give a list, but swaps instantly, guessing it won't work for you, but it could.
Alt+F9; Minimizes the game, (GNOME only)
Ctrl+Alt+D; Shows desktop
Alt+F1; Accesses applications, not sure if this'll help, thought I'd point it out anyway.
Ctrl+Esc; Again, though opens your task manager this time. (KDE)

Also, pretty much all I'm getting for the Mac is F11 and Cmd+M or Cmd+H, there's also the Mac's version of alt-tab which is Cmd+Tab.
Further than that I don't think I can help you guys.

u seem 2 know everything about aquaria   

[Alphasoldier]

No, I just know how to use Google. =p

[iProob]

*laughs* well... i guess google knows everything about aquaria then

but still, so do you.