[Wine]Re: Mouse focus in Wine

[Hiji]

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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