Thanks for replying. Wine 1.1.31 in GNOME The problem does not occur with Wine's notepad. The question was interesting, so I did some experimenting. To test within the same virtual desktop window, I opened Steam. The problem did not occur when using the Steam client. When I start a any game, windowed or not, the problem occurs. When I use the mouse to close the game, the problem disappears with it. I'm thinking it's related to DirectX, then, perhaps?