Hi, Maybe folks are busy. Does no one else see this sort of problem? Thanks, Mark On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
