[Wine] Re: Problems with Steam Games (possible others?)

[firemulholland at gmail.com]

Hey,

> If you mentioned the games, maybe someone will be abe to help you on
> that. Also, did yoou check appdb.winehq.org?
Specifically, Counter Strike and Natural Selection, both Half Life
mods.

> Yeah. It also happens to others (anybody, I think). For reasons I cannot
> fathom wine has a hard time grabbing the mouse and keeping it inside a
> window. For me, I have devised a simple workaround, which involves fvwm,
> desktops and EdgeResistance.

How hard is this to setup?

> Are you using multiscreen/twinview/xinerama or multi-head?  I run
> multi-head so that full-screen games stay on one monitor.  The
> downside is that you can't drag an app from one screen to another but
> you can drag and drop text and other objects between them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama#Dual_display_X_without_Xinerama
Running Xinerama, and I quite like the setup as is.

Thanks for the reply!