http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30154
--- Comment #14 from mikopp@gmail.com 2012-03-15 11:45:44 CDT --- My xorg log proves that wine applications do as i described. There is a kernel discussion about this as well explicitly talking about wine flooding xorg with these requests. if somebody is interested let me know. i am happy with the workaround...