Evil Jay wrote: > I've replaced my video card and am now having MUCH better results with > CounterStrike:Source (I love Wine!). Most of my problems were due to > a defective EVGA 9600GT. > > However, I discovered a new windowing bug today with CS:S and other > Source-based games (I verified the same behavior under the Zombie > Panic total conversion) running under KDE4.1 (no Compiz, Kubuntu 8.10b1). > > Do this: > > 1) Start CS:S on your first desktop. > 2) Configure CS:S to run in windowed mode in a window smaller than > your desktop. You should see a CS:S window with your standard KDE > windows decorations. So far, so good.... > 2) Use the pager applet to flip to a second desktop > 3) Flip back to the first desktop. > 4) At this point you will see not only a window with your standard > KDE windows decorations, but inside that window will be a Windows > window with Windows decorations. All mouse clicks will be offset by > the number of pixels equal to the second, Windows, titlebar. (You > have to click below everything) > > You can recover by using the Windows titlebar to maximize the game > window - which will maximize the KDE window and get rid of the Windows > window. Then, flip to the second desktop. Flip back to the first > desktop and you will again have a Windows window inside your KDE > window again. Hit the restore button on the Windows window, and the > KDE window will shrink back to normal size and the Windows window will > have disappeared. Wow, that's some redundant use of the word "window". > > I hope some dev can make sense of my rambling and use it to improve > Wine. Thanks. > > > > > Evil Jay: First thank you for the longish explanation of your problem. However, posting it here may not get it fixed. Can you file a bug report in Bugzilla after checking if a report already exists. Also, can you update the Applications Database with your findings? I don't want your hard work to be lost in the mailing list/forum shuffle. Thank you. James McKenzie
