http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31702
--- Comment #11 from Samuel Nelson valczir.darkvein@gmail.com 2012-09-18 09:47:43 CDT --- (In reply to comment #10)
Windowed works every time, as you said - but it's strange that windowed fullscreen (or just maximizing the windowed mode) goes back to the same behavior as standard fullscreen.
As I understood it, all fullscreen wine programs were windowed fullscreen.
I do notice differences between actual fullscreen and windowed fullscreen, though. Windowed fullscreen allows me to alt+tab to different programs; with actual fullscreen, I have to switch to a different virtual desktop if I want to use other programs (alt+tab doesn't do any switching). At least, that's how it seemed to work when I tried the different modes a couple of days ago.
I assume it must be something to do with the window state, or we wouldn't be seeing different results in the virtual desktop.
It does make sense that the bug has something to do with the window state, and it's possible that it could be losing direct focus in some sense of the word - I'm just not quite so sure just yet, personally, because e17 tends to be pretty strict about windows that don't have focus behaving very differently. Heck, I even have it set to make unfocused windows translucent, and I've never seen GW2 go translucent all of a sudden. On the other hand, though, I think e17 shuts down compositing when anything is running fullscreen.
So all I'm really saying is that it doesn't work *exactly* like the game has lost focus. Maybe it loses partial focus, returns partial control of the mouse cursor to the window manager, or something like that. That would make sense.
I'm planning to try a few more environments (including an empty X session) after work - I'll post back with any results. I'm not expecting much, but I am pretty sure that at least some people just don't experience this bug, based on the lack of comments we're getting about it on the AppDB - maybe the window manager has something to do with it. I might have to install *cringe* KDE or *shudder* GNOME to see if the popular DEs somehow work.
On the other hand, it might just be that most people don't use mouselook constantly.
I'm using xfwm4 btw.
I'm using enlightenment DR17. Side note: are you using focus follows mouse, focus under mouse, or click to focus? I'm using focus follows mouse (i.e. the most recent window that I moused over is focused - e17 calls this "most recent window under mouse" or "sloppy" focus).
Again, I'm thinking in terms of how seldom people are commenting on the issue on the AppDB, but could the issue be related to that setting? Still seems unlikely to me; it's just a thought.