http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27523
--- Comment #2 from Jakob jakob@knugen.nu 2011-06-18 08:17:41 CDT --- (In reply to comment #1)
Probably a dupe of bug #23841.
Are you using a compositing window manager? I'm using using Gnome 3 with Mutter as WM and starting the Steam client in virtual desktop mode works around the problem.
Yes im using gnome3 so is that the only way around atm?