I think I saw this problem last night with HL. So, before I decided to "focus" on another window, I click hit "esc" to reach the game menu. :S That's all I can recommend. Hiji --- Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
