https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39703
Bug ID: 39703 Summary: Switching from a Windows app to an OS X app and then back causes the spinning ball of death Product: Wine Version: unspecified Hardware: x86 OS: Mac OS X Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: professormrh@gmail.com
Sometime after 1.6.2_4 a bug was introduced in Wine that causes any Windows application under Wine to crash with the spinning ball of death if you switch to an OS X application and then return to the Windows application under Wine.
Example:
1. Open Notepad++ 2. Switch to an OS X application (say TextEdit or Chrome) 3. Copy some text to the clipboard 4. Switch back to Notepad++ 5. Encounter the spinning ball of death
However, if you just switched to an OS X application and then switched back without interacting with the clipboard, there is still a 50/50 chance you will encounter the spinning ball of death.
Once you have the spinning ball of death you have to force quite out of Wine.
Wine 1.6.x does not exhibit this bug.