> You can hardly blame SDL for this, games are not really what X11 was designed for.

It's funny how the Windows version of the game usually works just fine in Wine, minimization and window switching included.

> Setting up full screen and asking for exclusive access to the keyboard will prevent the window manager from doing anything to it.

Then why are they asking for exclusive access to the keyboard in the first place? X has rich input protocols (XInput2 was recently designed).

> Since you have not checked whether this is actually the situation

True, but I have read the changelog, and it doesn't mention any of these two annoying problems to be fixed. Part of the reason I made this comment is to see if someone else knows whether they were fixed.