Hi, If I play a game in Wine - either Caesar III or Half Life come to mind right now - they seem to work better for me in a windowed setup where the game is not full screen and I can still see the rest of my Gnome desktop in the background. Caesar III plays well under Cedega or Wine, HL much better under Cedega, but the point being that I've tried both. The frustration I've had is that with either environment, when the Wine game window is not in focus - say a terminal is up front and the Wine window banner shows it's not active - the games are still following the mouse. This causes numerous problems. For instance you're sitting in a safe place in Half Life. You pop a terminal up using Alt-Tab and start typing. Maybe you decide to use the mouse to open another app so you go to the bottom left corner of Gnome's desktop. Suddenly Half Life, sitting in the background, moves your position like it would if it was the app in focus, you're no longer in a safe place and you die. Bummer... ;-) I haven't found a way to get a game being played under Wine to act like a normal app. I've played a bit with the managed configuration, as well as the dxgrag item. DxGrab seems to keep the mouse inside the game and disables Alt-Tabbing so I cannot get out to do anything else. Certainly I can save the game, pop to some other window in the game where I'm not playing, like the HL Load screen, and I have no problems, but how can I get Wine to not watch the mouse if the Wine app is not active? Distro is Gentoo, many versions of Wine, Cedega's most recent. Thanks in advance, Mark _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
