http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15323
--- Comment #5 from mat@voxmobili.com 2008-09-25 07:32:20 --- I added the full trace of "WINDEBUG=+win,+tid,+relay wine warpatch.exe" : Unzipped (3 MB) : http://www.herebedragons.org/wine/debug.txt Zipped (120 kB) :http://www.herebedragons.org/wine/debug.zip
The normal starting process from a user point of view is: 1) login window 2) patcher window 3) game window
If I'm not mistaken, the patcher window is created first but kept undisplayed ("thread" 0018). In my case, I never see the login window, and it doesn't seem to be created in the trace.
If we run with a virtual desktop, use warpatch.bin instead of warpatch.exe, we have the same behavior until we hit the "x" to close the virtual desktop. Then the login window appears, though everything closes shortly after. The corresponding trace is here (zipped, 473kB) : http://www.herebedragons.org/wine/debugbin.zip