[Wine] e-sword under a tiling WM

[James McKenzie]

On 1/30/11 8:43 PM, ngoonee wrote:
> ngoonee wrote:
>> vitamin wrote:
>>> ngoonee wrote:
>>>> Well, why does my WM know about other wine apps but not e-sword?
>>> Popup, tooltip, and like windows (most windows without caption) are created as unmanaged. It all depends on what kind of windows program is using.
>>
>> I don't think e-sword is an unmanaged window. It has a caption, and the windows is permanent (not transitory). The program itself is free to use, though installation needs a few dlls set to native.
>>
>> Would you be so kind as to test it out (if possible)? Or tell me how I can find out what sort of window esword is producing (xprop?).
>
> (very old) bump, with latest stable wine the behaviour is still the same. I think it may be app-specific, but e-sword doesn't seem to have any pop-up like behaviour on windows.
>
You need to install msls31 functionality to get tooltips in e-Sword.

You will also need riched20/30 as well full textual functionality.  And 
I'm working on fixing this, slowly but surely.

James McKenzie