http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17491
--- Comment #6 from Michael P. ploujj@gmail.com 2009-05-10 22:03:00 --- After more testing I noticed that the problem varies in different window managers and user profiles. I'm always able to reproduce this in Xmonad under an existing user profile. However, in Gnome, with an existing user profile this problem only manifests some of the times. Other times, the screen goes black but goes back to the normal desktop after GooglEarth loads completely (usually whitin a few seconds of startup). The problem seems non-existent in Gnome of a newly created user.