http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15338
--- Comment #7 from Arno Schuring aelschuring@hotmail.com 2008-09-25 15:33:07 --- now this is getting interesting. Performing a full bisection did not yield any results because I could not reproduce the error, not even in a rebuild of 1.1.5; but now I can reproduce it even in 1.0... that's what you get when you mix two desktop environments.
I'm now testing a build of 0.9.50. I'm not sure this is worth pursuing, because it seems to me the cause is outside of Wine. Problem is, there are too many factors between the two environments to find out what causes it: ati vs fglrx, e17 vs xfce, pulseaudio vs alsa, gnome-settings-daemon vs xfce-mcs-manager.
Right now, I'm not even sure this is a regression in Wine. Could be a regression in one of its dependencies. I'll keep testing and post my results if I find something useful.