[Wine]Re: Mouse focus in Wine

[Mark Knecht]

Hi Hiji,
   Yes, that's what I'm doing in Half Life. However in Caesar III,
where you build something and then just have to wait sometimes for
time to pass, there's no equivalent. In that case I want Caesar to run
while I go do something else, like adjust my ogg player. When my ogg
play is off to the right the Caesar map scrolls to the right so you
cannot see anything.

   Maybe I should go ask the question of the developers?

   thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,
Mark

On 8/24/05, Hiji <hijinio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think I saw this problem last night with HL.  So,
> before I decided to "focus" on another window, I click
> hit "esc" to reach the game menu. :S  That's all I can
> recommend.
> 
> Hiji
> 
> --- Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> >
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