[Bug 14904] New: Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14904

Summary: Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.0.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

When you've enabled: "Allow the windows manager to control the windows"

battle.net won't let you connect, saying that it's unable to make out you
client version.

Disabling it works fine, though you can't alt+tab to other apps.

[Bug 14904] Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14904

--- Comment #1 from Lei Zhang   2008-08-18 14:44:44 ---
Same problem with Wine 1.1.2?

[Bug 14904] Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14904

--- Comment #2 from Panos Laganakos   2008-08-18 15:19:27 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Same problem with Wine 1.1.2?

Yep, just updated to 1.1.2. Still doesn't work.

On a side note, starcraft is now really clanky gfx wise. Sound is OK  but the
fraphics are really slow.

I had enabled opengl for it in the registry, does installing a new wine version
require to enable it again?

[Bug 14904] Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

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--- Comment #3 from Adam Petaccia   2009-02-11 22:45:29 ---
I can confirm this bug, but (In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Same problem with Wine 1.1.2?
>
> Yep, just updated to 1.1.2. Still doesn't work.
>
> On a side note, starcraft is now really clanky gfx wise. Sound is OK  but the
> fraphics are really slow.
>
> I had enabled opengl for it in the registry, does installing a new wine version
> require to enable it again?

I can confirm this bug about the window manager, but I had to set gdi32 in the
registry because opengl displays nothing (on a side note).

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Jon Dufresne  changed:

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Jon Dufresne  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Jon Dufresne   2009-02-25 10:02:20 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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--- Comment #5 from RD   2009-08-02 08:12:53 ---
I have experienced this issue was well.  However, I noticed something
different.

I ran wine with:

"Allow the windows manager to control the windows" - enabled
"Emulate a virtual desktop" - disabled

I could not connect to Battle.net.  I received the error stating it could not
determine my version and that I might have a virus.

Then I ran wine with:

"Allow the windows manager to control the windows" - enabled
"Emulate a virtual desktop" - enabled

Battle.net connected just fine, I was able to create an account, login, and
even start a game online after navigating through some messed up battle.net
screens.

For me it was not whether window manager had been enabled, but whether the
desktop was emulated or the game allowed to run in fullscreen.  Perhaps the
window manager and fullscreen have some issues with each other?

Also noted that when I ran the game in fullscreen playing single player, the
left side was cut off by a number of pixels (basically everything to the left
of the mountains in the terrain button above the map).  I could not see most of
the mouse if it were moved as far left as possible.  If I had a unit moved as
far left as possible on the map, they would be mostly off screen as well.  When
I enabled the virtual desktop this did not occur.  I don't mean to hijack this
ticket.  If I need to create a seperate ticket for that issue I will, but I
just thought perhaps they could be related issues.

wine 1.1.26
StarCraft/BroodWars 1.16.1

[Bug 14904] Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14904

--- Comment #6 from Austin English   2010-05-26 16:03:13 ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 6
months. Is this still an issue in current (1.2-rc1 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #7 from co0lingFir3   2010-08-16 03:11:58 ---
I just installed wine 1.2 and this bug is still present, i.e. you have to
disable "Allow the windows manager to control the windows" in order to be able
to access the battle.net.
Maybe this is unrelated but when I disable the option mentioned above Ubuntu's
mouse pointer is always visible during the game (circling mouse pointer like
when loading an app, which does not move at all), which is somewhat annoying.
That is you have two mouse pointers inside the game, one of which you cannot
use/move. This only occurs when I launch StarCraft from a .desktop file. Doing
so from the terminal makes this problem disappear.

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--- Comment #8 from hickop  2012-03-25 10:37:52 CDT ---
Using Wine 1.5.0 with Starcraft 1.16.1
Tried with both Openbox 3.5.0 and i3-wm 4.1.2

Battle.net works for me with Openbox and "Allow the windows manager to control
the windows" enabled

With i3-wm and "Allow the windows manager to control the windows" enabled,
running the game just show the loading screen but does not redraw the game
menu. I need to disable "Allow the windows manager to control the windows" to
make it work with i3-wm.

[Bug 14904] Starcraft Battle.net & Window Manager

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14904

--- Comment #9 from Austin English  ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 2 years.
Is this still an issue in current (1.7.16 or newer) wine?

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Ken Sharp  ---
Abandoned

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Closing abandoned bugs.