1) It's always on top of all other windows,on all
workspaces of GNOME, which is very annoying, and makes
it impossible to try HL2. If clicked while HL2 is on startup
screen it will crash the game.
I've sent a patch to wine-patches some time ago,
but it wasn't accepted
because it's wrong. The link is
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/03/0504.html
You may try it, it fixes Steam in this aspect, but it may break other apps.
2) If you click on any game, go to Update News, it
will crash
every time. If there are Update News when Steam is started, it
will crash (but it will work after that). Here's the output, although it
doesn't look very helpful to me:
Do you have IE6 installed. Do you use the
native shdocvw, mshtml and shlwapi
dlls? What winver have you set?
I don't have Steam installed right now, but I know that those things are
fragile. I've set the above dlls to native, winver = winxp. This way no
things are shown, but Steam doesn't crash. It's possible to get this thing to
work somehow, (winver = win98, native dlls and a correct ie6 installation,
native dcom I think and a few other native dlls), but as I said, it's
fragile.
ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid
CTL plug:hw:0
Half-life and friends are broken for me with the alsa driver.
Stefan