http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559
--- Comment #7 from Mike van Niekerk mvniekerk@gmail.com 2009-11-03 02:23:36 --- So there is no way Wine developers are going to see why this happens? Great. Compiz is enabled on most if not all Ubuntu installations. I'm not convinced that the user will see "It is a Compiz bug" as sufficient. Wine runs Windows applications on Ubuntu (or any Compiz enabled distro for that matter) and it really looks bad if one installs this and all you get is a blank screen.
I've tested it with Codeweavers CrossOver Office 8.0 and the same problem persists.
Please reconsider this on the argument that Compiz has become the standard and that there is no other applications (except Wine) on Linux that creates this blacked out screen.