http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9301
Summary: regression: windows almost never focussed or loose focus Product: Wine Version: 0.9.43. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-x11driver AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: hoehle@users.sourceforge.net
Hi, since upgrading to 0.9.42 and 0.9.43, I cannot use wine anymore because most windows don't get focus or immediately loose it when clicking, even winecfg and regedit. Some apps iconify as soon as I click something. I upgraded from 0.9.38 (so I don't know whether the regression was introduced with 0.39, .40, 41 or 42). Although I'm using metacity in Ubuntu Dapper, I believe this bug is different from bug #5120 as I had been using Ubuntu with wine successfully with 20070725, 0.9.9, 0.9.15 .16, .19 21 ... and many other versions.
Symptoms: winecfg & regedit start without getting focus. When I move the cursor from one window to the other, the "window resize" cursor that was set while moving over the window's border remains set even after I click to activate the second window. There are also several refresh problems when moving windows (mostly grey border lines) in winecfg and regedit. Every time I activate the wine 800x600 desktop window, all ms-windows apps become deactivated (some iconify then).
Normally, I have apps\metycity\focus_mode "sloppy" set via the preferences (the Gnome prefs set "sloppy", not "mouse"). With that, the situation is now so bad that wine is unusable. E.g. I can activate winecfg only by moving its window. Then, approx every other click causes the window to loose focus (which causes other apps to iconify). Every other click does not toggle the boolean checkboxes in winecfg (because its window is not active).
When I'm not using a wine desktop window, the sudden iconification also prevents the apps from being usable, as there's no "restore" menu available (and "maximize" is disabled) in Gnome/metacity.
I have no other window managers installed on this machines to try.