[Bug 10142] Window Management Bug

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10142





--- Comment #14 from Greg Flint <grackleflint at hotmail.com>  2008-06-24 06:56:37 ---
I may have a hint as to the core cause of this issue.  In an attempt to sort
out the problem, I copied the Guild Wars directory from Linux to a Windows box
and found that the main GW window was starting up minimised.

It seems very likely that the disappearing window bug is in fact a problem with
Wine displaying a minimised window.  For whatever reason, the minimised window
is not shown on the desktop manager's task bar nor is it displayed anywhere on
the X display.  This is also consistent with the window "disappearing" when you
switch desktops as some Windows programs will automatically minimise if you
Alt-Tab from full screen mode (GW does this).

Even though GW was running in a window when it initially disappeared, it's
likely that the message sent to the program to indicate that the desktop had
switched was interpreted as an Alt-Tab or equivalent so it minimised the window
and then X and/or the desktop lost track of the window.

If it helps, the problem seems to be that the minimised window size is set to
an something like 0 by 0.  I can no longer run this GW install in windowed
mode, even under XP.  GW remembers the last size of the window and will
automatically switch back to the previous size when you switch between windowed
and full screen modes.  I suspect that the bug somehow caused the window to
have an insane size which GW remembered when I killed it on Linux.  It is now
not sanity checking this value and whenever I try to restore the window, it's
setting the size to this insane value and both XP and Wine are refusing to
display the broken window.  On XP I can get around this by maxmimising GW from
the taskbar but the broken window doesn't appear on the taskbar under Wine.

I have verified this behaviour by switching GW to full screen under XP,
quitting and then loading the same GW config in to Wine.  GW now starts up fine
in full screen mode and behaves perfectly.  If I attempt to go back to windowed
mode, the GW window disappears entirely, including from the taskbar.


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