[Wine] windows opening off screen

[Austin English]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM, yaqh <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with windows which open off-screen and are thus inaccessible.  Until recently, I ran my laptop with an external monitor in a dual-screen configuration.  Now, I'm back to a single screen, but some wine apps appear to be trying to start up elsewhere.
>
> So, I can verify that the program is running using ps and xwininfo:
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> wtipton   6652 26.5  2.3 2662984 36500 ?       Sl   14:04   0:25 /home/wtipton/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PokerTracker 3/PokerTracker.exe
>
> and
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> xwininfo: Window id: 0x3600022 "PokerTracker? v3.00 build 2   Database: PokerTra
> cker 3 Database"
>
>  Absolute upper-left X:  -1050
>  Absolute upper-left Y:  158
>  Relative upper-left X:  -1050
>  Relative upper-left Y:  158
>  Width: 804
>  Height: 585
>  Depth: 24
>  Visual Class: TrueColor
>  Border width: 0
>  Class: InputOutput
>  Colormap: 0x2400001 (not installed)
>  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
>  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
>  Backing Store State: NotUseful
>  Save Under State: no
>  Map State: IsUnMapped
>  Override Redirect State: no
>  Corners:  +-1050+158  -1526+158  -1526-281  +-1050-281
>  -geometry 804x585+-1050+158
>
> and notice that the window coordinates given by xwininfo are negative.
>
> Warnings given by wine are:
>
> warn:win:create_window_handle error 6 creating window
> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle (nil)
> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle (nil)
> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle (nil)
> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle (nil)
> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle (nil)
> etc
>
> After the app starts up, I can move the window onto the screen using wmctrl or xwit, but it seems as though it's too late.  The app has already failed, and it's just a frozen window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
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Do you still have the second screen configured in xorg? Have you tried
in a fresh wine prefix and see if the problem still exists?