New subject: [Bug 22119] X11 mouse pointer shows over fullscreen window

22 Mar 2010


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22119
Summary: X11 mouse pointer shows over fullscreen window
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P1
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org
        ReportedBy: fred@alternation.fr
I'm opening this as a new bug, even if I know it's a duplicate of at least 3
other ones!
But I do it on purpose, because I think we got a real problem here, a kind of
very underestimated one and so it can joins all reports about it in one place!
Let me explain what is it about: as the title said it, the X11 mouse pointer
shows over fullscreen window in a bunch of applications, most of them being
games (but not only)!
First I met this bug with the game "The Heat of War" I've played through with
Wine 1.1.36 and submitted in the appdb here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19287
I've found that there's 3 bugs already talking about, but every time about an
other application:
- Diablo II: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20362
- Geiss: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21524
- Quake Live: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17746 (that one being
closed invalid, where it doesn't really seems to be the case)
Then, I've found by the Ubuntu forums that the problem is even bigger:
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=988573
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=925046
and some workarounds:
- Or quickly moving the cursor as the game is launched (tricky to achieve &
look stupid =;)
- Or using a WM (Fluxbox for exemple) other than Gnome, as it looked related to
in this case. (Fedora 12 x86_64 + Gnome)
It's important to say that problem NEVER EVER shows in windowed mode, but ONLY
in fullscreen!
But now that I wanted to submit Call of Duty 2 with a Platinum note on appdb,
because it was working so great (and I've finished it) on a OpenSuse 11.2
x86_64 (+ KDE4) box, I've noticed that the used Wine version (proposed by the
official repos) was an old 1.1.28!
So I updated to 1.1.41 and guess what? Every single symptom being before
described are now here: "ghost mouse" on fullscreen, not in windowed mode,
going away with quickly moving the cursor as the game is launched!
Using the alternate WM being provided with OpenSuse (IceWM) doesn't help at all
this time, the problem is also there...
Now, it even crashes some times my X session, bringing me back to KDM login
screen, what never happened before!
The only message I've found about it being:
Mar 22 13:05:06 mir kdm[1166]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
But that might be 2 different problems, so it doesn't have perhaps to be mixed
with the main problem here...
It's important to say that I've totally disabled Desktop Effects / Compiz when
playing both games, so it has nothing to do with it.
The graphic card with the first game was an integrated chipset Intel GM45, the
one for the second game a Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT, so it's not hardware / driver
related...
Gnome and KDE are affected, but not Fluxbox on Fedora 12. I've just found the
way right now to install it on OpenSuse 11.2 (as it is not in the official
repos) so I will give it a try and edit this bug later (as I've to log out).
I'm ready to still keep a while Call of Duty 2 (even if I wanted to delete it)
to provide more feedback, tests or whatever needed to help getting rid of this
bug, because I don't see as trivial or not important: it is REALLY more then
just an annoyance, it has to be eradicated and it looks like a big
regression...
So I hope it helps...
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[Bug 22119] New: X11 mouse pointer shows over fullscreen window