https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56342
Bug ID: 56342 Summary: Finale refuses to minimize or lose window focus Product: Wine-staging Version: 9.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: s_chriscollins@hotmail.com CC: leslie_alistair@hotmail.com, z.figura12@gmail.com Distribution: ---
The music notation software Finale refuses to stay minimized (it immediately reappears after clicking the WM minimize button) and will also often not relinquish focus when trying to use another app, especially if the two apps are overlapping windows. This is a huge usability issue when using the software as I can't switch the focus to other windows, and other important applications stay buried underneath the Finale window until Finale is closed entirely.
This issue only happens in Wine Staging, and I was able to narrow the issue down to the following commit:
--- commit abf67e73f7c6afe2eca9ee09ca2214f12700c6d1 Author: Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru Date: Wed Feb 10 15:09:29 2016 +0800
winex11.drv: Add support for _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW. (v2)
And use it as a backend in user32.SetActiveWindow().
For bug #2155. ---
This bug is reproducible using the free trial version of Finale v27 available here: https://www.finalemusic.com/free-trial/
See also: bug #2155 (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155)
I have reproduced this bug on KDE Neon User Edition 5.27 (hardware and VM install) and Xubuntu 22.04 (VM install). I can provide system details if desired, but they seem irrelevant here.