[Bug 6971] Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971

--- Comment #221 from Forest Hale   2009-01-17 22:50:08 ---
(In reply to comment #220)
> I don't think that such a patch is likely to be accepted, even if it works. If
> the thread with the DGA mouse grab becomes nonresponsive, it becomes impossible
> to move the mouse until that program is killed (and maybe longer). I've been
> told that Wine won't do X mouse grabs for a similar reason.

Pretty much every native Linux game does exactly this (X mouse grab, and often
DGA as well), so arguably this is an X problem and not one peculiar to wine.

We can't demand that a game in wine to work better than a native game.

I assume this will all be fixed with XInput2, but until then I think the
current situation is fixable, at least for a majority of users, and it would
end the steady stream of hacks being contributed.