http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13253
--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2008-05-16 08:41:24 --- (In reply to comment #4)
It largely depends on the application. But in at least a few cases (ET:QW comes to mind) they do what I'm suggesting here.
In other words applications handle that on their own. What I'm suggesting, is do that on the X11/driver level where it belongs.