[Bug 38708] New: wine 1.7.* won't grab keyboard, some games super slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38708

Bug ID: 38708
           Summary: wine 1.7.* won't grab keyboard, some games super slow
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.0
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Using the dev branch causes several games (Dragon Age: Origins, Homeworld2
Complex , and the recently released Etherium, which were the only games I have)
to fail to grab the keyboard, such that keypresses show up in the aterm from
which the wine command was issued. Downgrading to the 1.6.* series resolves the
issue

Furthermore, the Complex mod for wine runs *etremely* slowly: loading a game
with 1.6.* takes under 30 seconds; with 1.7.* it's over ten minutes.

What information do you need to help narrow down the issue?

Cheers,

A

[Bug 38708] wine 1.7.* won't grab keyboard, some games super slow

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Henri Verbeet  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Henri Verbeet  ---
Mostly a git bisect between the working and broken versions.

I also suspect these aren't necessarily all the same issue, so after you've
done the bisect you may need to split the bug report (one report for each
separate issue), and some of them may be duplicates of existing bugs.

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Béla Gyebrószki  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Béla Gyebrószki  ---
@Andrew:
I reported the problem regarding the long loading times in Homeworld 2 in bug
#38779.Now you can concentrate on the other problem to find the commit that
broke keyboard input in those games ;)

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[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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            Summary|wine 1.7.* won't grab       |wine 1.7.* won't grab
                   |keyboard, some games super  |keyboard
                   |slow                        |
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #4 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Is the keyboard issue still present for you in 2.0-rc2 or later? If so, we
still need the regression test results.

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George Gonzalez  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from George Gonzalez  ---
This *might* be the same problem as in 2155, where SetFocus, SetActiveWindow,
and SetForegroundWindow API's just do not work if the window manager is turned
on.,
with the winecfg switch under graphics: "Allow window manager to control
windows".

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--- Comment #6 from George Gonzalez  ---
There is a very nice and small test program attached to bug #2155 that shows
this problem using a small test program.

There also is an alleged fix attached, however the whole X11 set_focus code has
draastically changed since that patch was young, like code has moved by 1,200
lines.    So the patch is not easily applied.  Also the patch uses
somewhat-dodgy X11 calls that are not used anywhere else in Wine, plus a
timeout loop, which just on general principles may not be the best way to fix
this.

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--- Comment #7 from George Gonzalez  ---
We are going to continue on in bug 2155 as it seems very very difficult to
continue on with testing against Dragon Age, as it is very crashy very early
on.  
Etherium also fails to get us anywhere and we cannot find the third reported
problem game.

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joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from joaopa  ---
Can an administrator close this bug as DUPLICATE of bug 2155?

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Zebediah Figura  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to joaopa from comment #8)
> Can an administrator close this bug as DUPLICATE of bug 2155?

I don't think it's actually confirmed that this is the same problem as bug
2155; that was just speculation.

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Linards  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Linards  ---
Is this issue still resent?
Can OP retest with latest wine-staging please?

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--- Comment #11 from N. Andrew Walsh  ---
I'm using wine-staging-6.7. I can't even remember anymore when I stopped having
this issue, unfortunately. I just masked wine-1.7, and don't think the problem
was still there in wine-1.8. But that was four years ago; I'm afraid there's
little I can do to help at this point. Wine below 6.0 isn't even in the gentoo
repositories anymore.

Thanks for the follow-up, though. Feel free to close the issue.

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--- Comment #12 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to N. Andrew Walsh from comment #11)
> I'm using wine-staging-6.7. I can't even remember anymore when I stopped
> having this issue, unfortunately. I just masked wine-1.7, and don't think
> the problem was still there in wine-1.8. But that was four years ago; I'm
> afraid there's little I can do to help at this point. Wine below 6.0 isn't
> even in the gentoo repositories anymore.
>
> Thanks for the follow-up, though. Feel free to close the issue.

Does it work in upstream (non-staging) wine?

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Rémi Bernon  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Rémi Bernon  ---
No reply for several years now, issue has been reported as fixed.