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They finally added the game mode setting. Thank you for pushing this over the finish line with me.

November 5, 2015

Stop Skype from minimizing games

Stop Skype from minimizing games

🏆 Won — 285 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 14 years ago
We are asking you to make a game mode option in Skype that will prevent minimizing games when answering with Skype hotkeys, or when someone ends up calls. We think this is simple to solve, and it will improve our communication experience.

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Reached 250 supporters

September 11, 2015

April 14, 2014

The momentum is incredible. This is clearly a massive issue for all of us.

Reached 100 supporters

July 2, 2013

108 Comments

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johan gustavsson
10 years ago Featured

An application that is well behaved SHOULD NEVER take focus from an application running in fullscreen, unless as a user I allow the program to do so in the settings screen.

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A TF2 Player
10 years ago Featured

When I'm playing TF2, I always get a skype call. The thing is though, is that it takes like 3 minutes just to get TF2 working again, which usually gets me killed, my buildings destroyed, or kicked.

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Jeremie
11 years ago Featured

this needs to be fixed or a visible option! i keep crashing when playing dota,lol,cod and other games please fix

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Megan B.
12 years ago Featured

This happens when I'm playing DayZ, which can really screw me over, especially if I am i a firefight at the moment. If they would fix this I would definitely use skype more often. At the moment I stick to other methods strictly for this reason.

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Jake Stone
12 years ago Featured

I have lost so many matches because of this option or lack of an option. It can not be that hard to make skype stay in its own area and mind it's own business.

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Danny Oosthoek
12 years ago Featured

Please see to it that this can be en or disabled! It kills characters in games people play or can change outcomes of games drastically. And i can think of many more cases in which this is annoying. The DND option does not suffice because i do want to hear people calling me but not my foreground applications minimalized. At least give us an option to disable this!

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Johnathan Young
10 years ago

I'm sick of having skype minimize things like Heroes of the storm when we have a call drop or a problem that makes us have to recall the group and it minimizes our program in the middle of a fight etc. It would be great if you guys could add something like an option to have it not minimize on auto-answer so that it doesn't interrupt the game for everyone. Its just outright frustration when other programs don't do anything of the sort. My friends and I always use this program to talk in general as well as when we're gaming because its one of the best quality of audio voice chat programs

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Tobias Bech
10 years ago

Fuk dis shiet