http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10814
--- Comment #11 from Michael Tramel miketrml@gmail.com 2009-01-12 20:25:33 --- (In reply to comment #10)
Michael Tramel: Are you saying that they randomly disappear on you? I can only get them to disappear when minimizing the window. Then when the window is maximized, they are gone.
The toolboxes themselves don't randomly disappear, per-say. It's a matter of clicking at just the right instance, and each time it involves user interaction to "force" the disappearing act to occur. Wine can hold Adobe Photoshop and it's windows visible for as long as the program is in operation as long as there's no using the program for the meantime (aka: doing a random act somewhere else in the house such as watching television). It's when the user begins using various menu options (including the toolbox or layer properties, etc.) that all toolboxes decide to disappear at random. In order to "solve" this (quoted because this is NOT a solution, simply a temporary fix), making the primary window smaller and placing the toolbox windows on either side is about the only idea I've came up with.
In terms of the window 'emulation', I'm speaking of the option in winecfg regarding emulating a desktop with a certain HxW property. For my 1280x1024 screen, I'll usually use 1100x900, which seems to fill somewhere around 90% of the screen with the Photoshop window. Using such a method, I'll typically slap a program running in Wine (such as Photoshop) on an unused virtual desktop. It's an ugly maneuver, but it works.