[Wine] Re: starting wine with window size gives error.

[Duane Clark]

Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am starting wine with the command:
> 
> wine explorer /desktop=Name,640x480 PPTVIEW.EXE myppt.ptt
> 
> and I get the following error:
> 
> [silentm at geisjdell PowerPoint Viewer]$ fixme:actctx:QueryActCtxW
> 80000010 0x3018b4d0 (nil) 1 0x34fb60 8 (nil)
> X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x2e00007
>   Serial number of failed request:  13
>   Current serial number in output stream:  15
> 
> [silentm at geisjdell PowerPoint Viewer]$
> 
> If I start wine with wine explorer /desktop=Name,800x600 PPTVIEW.EXE 
> myppt.ptt
> 
> It does work.
> 
> Why can I not specify a smaller window? Is this a bug? I am using 0.9.33

Smaller windows can definitely be specified; I just tried a 640x480 
window with a current version of Wine and the game Riven. I am guessing 
that perhaps PPTVIEW simply won't create a window that small.