Mouse pointer gets trapped in game windows

I think this is an SDL "feature". I am playing a game in a window, I receive an instant message, pause, want to reply, but cannot because all my keypresses are handled by the game and then discarded, so no alt+tab, and the mouse pointer cannot leave the game window. Is there a way to take the focus away from those SDL windows?

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1	ALT+TAB should do it. If not report a bug to the SDL team. link answered 14 May '10, 00:53 smeezekitty 34●2 accept rate: 33% Three different computers and many different games, never worked for me. (14 May '10, 15:34) atilla

0	Could also be a bug in the game. link answered 17 Apr '12, 22:56 peterius 11●1 accept rate: 0%

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