[Wine] Mouse cursor not visible in World of Warcraft 3.0.9

[Warren Dumortier]

2009/4/10 clpo13 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> I'm running Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" and Wine 1.1.18, and I'm trying to get World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King working. I was able to install everything and get it running, but after the intro movie, the mouse cursor is completely invisible. It's still there, as I can mouse over buttons and click them, but I have no idea where the cursor actually is. Every so often, however, the cursor will appear for a few seconds before disappearing again. As you can imagine, this makes it very hard to do anything with the game. It was a chore simply getting past the license agreements before I could get to the login screen.
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> I'm using a fresh install of Wine (WoW is the first application I've installed) on a fully updated copy of my OS. I'm running WoW in OpenGL mode, as it crashes when run in Direct3D. Here is the terminal output:
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> $ wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe" -opengl
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> fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
> archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-2.MPQ opened
> archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened
> archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
> archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
> archive Data\common.MPQ opened
> archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\locale-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\speech-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\expansion-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\lichking-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\expansion-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
> archive Data\enUS\lichking-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39edbc,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39ebe0,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d:test_pbo_functionality >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from Loading the PBO test texture
>  @ directx.c / 3882
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f0b8,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d:test_pbo_functionality >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from Loading the PBO test texture
>  @ directx.c / 3882
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f2d8,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f434,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f5a0,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f59c,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f530,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f520,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f018,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f150,0x00000000), stub!
> failed to open C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39df1c,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39df44,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 5000
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
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> I'm a relative noob when it comes to Linux, so I don't even know where to begin to figure out what's wrong. Any help would be great.
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It's a known bug in Wine, due to animated cursor. It appears when you
move around or there is an option in WoW concerning the cursor that
makes it work (can't remember the option). Easy to find and works
great when you change the option.