[Wine] Re: Force parent window

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri Nov 21 15:18:31 CST 2008


Xyem wrote:
> Does Wine allow me to change the parent window of an application run under Wine?
> 
> I've tested one of the 64k demos from Farbrausch (http://www.farb-rausch.com/) and it works perfectly under Wine. I'd like to have them running as my wallpaper.
> 
> I've tried Xwinwrap but it doesn't work so I was wondering if there is something I can pass to Wine to tell it to draw its windows on the root window ( or any other window I specify, so I could also use them as a screen-saver :) )
> 
> Thanks


No, this is not supported.
Wine requires lots of special handling as far as windows goes. And uses lots of features not always available in all modes.







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