[Wine]Re: Mouse focus in Wine

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Maybe folks are busy. Does no one else see this sort of problem?

Thanks,
Mark

On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    If I play a game in Wine - either Caesar III or Half Life come to
> mind right now - they seem to work better for me in a windowed setup
> where the game is not full screen and I can still see the rest of my
> Gnome desktop in the background. Caesar III plays well under Cedega or
> Wine, HL much better under Cedega, but the point being that I've tried
> both.
> 
>    The frustration I've had is that with either environment, when the
> Wine game window is not in focus - say a terminal is up front and the
> Wine window banner shows it's not active - the games are still
> following the mouse. This causes numerous problems. For instance
> you're sitting in a safe place in Half Life. You pop a terminal up
> using Alt-Tab and start typing. Maybe you decide to use the mouse to
> open another app so you go to the bottom left corner of Gnome's
> desktop. Suddenly Half Life, sitting in the background, moves your
> position like it would if it was the app in focus, you're no longer in
> a safe place and you die. Bummer... ;-)
> 
>    I haven't found a way to get a game being played under Wine to act
> like a normal app. I've played a bit with the managed configuration,
> as well as the dxgrag item. DxGrab seems to keep the mouse inside the
> game and disables Alt-Tabbing so I cannot get out to do anything else.
> 
>    Certainly I can save the game, pop to some other window in the game
> where I'm not playing, like the HL Load screen, and I have no
> problems, but how can I get Wine to not watch the mouse if the Wine
> app is not active?
> 
>    Distro is Gentoo, many versions of Wine, Cedega's most recent.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>