Alt tabbing with full screen games in Gnome Shell

I'm using gnome shell 3.6.2 and whenever I launch a full screen game (like heroes of newerth) I can't alt-tab out of it or change to a different work space. I can do this in XFCE, KDE (with compositing disabled) and unity (have a press it a few times) but I can't do this in gnome shell. Is there a workaround I can use (besides starting it in a different X server).
EDIT: I tried the package sdl-nokeyboardgrab and the libx11-nokeyboard grab and tried running hon as:
LD_PRELOAD=libX11-nokeynomouse.so HoN/hon.sh
but it still doesn't work. When I alt-tab/change workspace it shows the adwaita cursor (instead of the HoN one) and kinda blinks the gnome shell desktop.
Last edited by Draucia (2012-11-22 13:25:46)

Hello bferretti...sorry to hear you're having issues with the hot corners.
I was playing WOW last night and started playing around with the video options. I noticed there are two full screen options now - Fullscreen and Windowed Fullscreen. If in Fullscreen the hot corners are disabled for me. If I use Windowed Fullscreen then the hot corners are still active.
Not sure if you've taken a look at that...but just thought I'd pass along that info.
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