[Bug 21770] New: Keyboard doesn't work in games launched from Steam

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21770

Summary: Keyboard doesn't work in games launched from Steam
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.37
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

When I try to launch any game from Steam I can't use keyboard in those games.

Tested with Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2, Left 4
Dead, GTA: Vice City and Psychonauts. However, no problem with Abe's Oddyssee.

I have no problems with games without Steam. Eg. Warcraft 3, Guild Wars or C&C
Tiberian Sun.

The problem appears only when using virtual desktop and it's present since Wine
1.1.37. It also happens in current 1.1.39.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64bit and Wine from PPA.

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2010-02-20 19:02:21 ---
Works fine here. You sure you didn't change something in your system?

Perform regression testing as described here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

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--- Comment #2 from Bas Koopmans   2010-03-04 03:17:49 ---
I have this issue as well, but I have noticed it in other games such as EVE
online as well. Judging from the issues I see this is likely another version of
bugs 9320 and/or 21564.

Are you running these games in a VD on a separate X server? I work around these
issues by starting a new X server and running the application _only_ on it.
That way there is nothing else there to take focus away from the main window.

Unfortunately Steam may sometimes pop up windows after you have already started
the game, and they may still take the keyboard focus away. The only solution
for that seems to be to kill the wine instance and re-launch, hoping that this
time steam will keep it's mouth shut.

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--- Comment #3 from Jan Kalab   2010-03-04 03:28:10 ---
It happens only when using VD. Running Steam and CS full-screen works.

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--- Comment #4 from Jan Kalab   2010-03-04 03:36:09 ---
I guess Bug 9320 is not duplicate. The keyboard works in Steam windows before
and after starting and quiting the game. But the keyboard does not work in the
game.

But I agree it's probably problem with apps focuses inside VD.

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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            Summary|Keyboard doesn't work in    |Keyboard doesn't work in
                   |games launched from Steam   |games launched from Steam
                   |                            |when using virtual desktop
           Severity|normal                      |minor

--- Comment #5 from Vitaliy Margolen   2010-03-04 09:07:02 ---
http://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity
No workaround required - default configuration works.

Still waiting for regression testing results.

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--- Comment #6 from edward savage   2010-03-06 13:18:33 ---
I cannot recreate this on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit using Wine from the PPA or GIT
using either the new Steam Beta UI or the Classic Steam UI.

This bug does seem to outline the need for an ability to 'alt tab' between
applications open on a VD how ever.  Is this already possible?

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--- Comment #7 from Jan Kalab   2010-03-11 12:26:12 ---
I found workaround: Start game from steam, wait till it starts, click away from
VD so it lose focu, click to VD again, keyboard works.

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--- Comment #8 from Pavel Valach   2010-03-13 07:22:06 ---
I ran a regression test few minutes ago. The result? The bug has appeared for
first time in Wine 1.1.33 and it's because of this commit:

6823f4aaf8b91b729062573e4eef94f9e29b7792 is first bad commit
commit 6823f4aaf8b91b729062573e4eef94f9e29b7792
Author: Vincent Povirk 
Date:   Wed Nov 11 14:37:51 2009 -0600

winex11.drv: Allow explorer to focus other process windows.

When explorer gets a take focus message, it tries to focus the foreground
    window, but this doesn't work because set_focus can only focus windows in
    the current process. We have to look for the focus window in the foreground
    thread, not the current one, or we won't find the other process's windows.

Since the other process may crash at any time, causing its windows to be
    destroyed, we also have to ignore the BadWindow error that will occur if
that
    happens at a critical time.

:040000 040000 7ca0c85867d8b49b2517a15524c6d9b6325fd583
8d1b6d81f597ae375c5f42b61ddf660078177a6f M    dlls

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--- Comment #9 from Vitaliy Margolen   2010-03-13 09:19:27 ---
Confirming per comment 2.

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--- Comment #10 from Vincent Povirk   2010-03-13 13:29:15 ---
Yep, I can reproduce this with Portal, and the workaround in comment 7 works.

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--- Comment #11 from Vincent Povirk   2010-03-13 14:29:41 ---
Setting the timestamp in X11DRV_SetFocus to CurrentTime also works around this
issue. It seems the adjustment for EVENT_x11_time_to_win32_time hasn't been set
yet.

This problem likely already existed for unmanaged windows; now it applies to
virtual desktops too, because they care about X focus.

Possible solutions:
* Just use CurrentTime if we don't have a timestamp yet.
* At startup, make some X calls that force us to get an event with a timestamp.
(XPropertyEvent is common for this.)

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--- Comment #12 from Vincent Povirk   2010-03-13 15:51:01 ---
Patch sent: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-March/085761.html

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--- Comment #13 from Pavel Valach   2010-03-14 05:27:12 ---
I'm sorry but the patch doesn't work here. Ubuntu 9.10, Wine-git. Workaround
described in comment 7 works though.

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--- Comment #14 from Vincent Povirk   2010-03-17 12:34:10 ---
Patch attempt two sent:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-March/085957.html

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--- Comment #15 from Vincent Povirk   2010-03-19 12:06:48 ---
My second try patch (I've learned the first was flawed) has been committed.
Please retest in Wine from Git or 1.1.41 when it's released.

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--- Comment #16 from Pavel Valach   2010-03-19 13:14:57 ---
Uh, sorry, my bad. The patch didn't break compilation, it only didn't solve the
problem. And neither the second one did :( This time tested on Gentoo Linux
KDE4 as well, I hope there isn't any difference when I'm using virtual desktop.
Can please anyone else test it and add some (console, debug) outputs? I'm going
out tommorow and I have no time for that...

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--- Comment #17 from Jan Kalab   2010-03-21 03:12:43 ---
I still have this issue in Wine 1.1.41 and workaround still works too.

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--- Comment #18 from Jeff Cook   2010-07-04 17:33:06 ---
What window manager are all of you people using? This happens on my brother's
computer with KDE 4. We work around it by pressing Alt+F2 to bring up the KDE
runline and then Esc out of it, and then the keyboard works in games. I use
awesome, however, and experience no problems with the virtual desktop.

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--- Comment #19 from Jan Kalab   2010-07-05 02:01:11 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> What window manager are all of you people using?

I'm using GNOME, and I still have to click outside and back inside of virtual
desktop to get focus.

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--- Comment #20 from noname   2010-07-05 08:21:50 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> What window manager are all of you people using? This happens on my brother's
> computer with KDE 4. We work around it by pressing Alt+F2 to bring up the KDE
> runline and then Esc out of it, and then the keyboard works in games. I use
> awesome, however, and experience no problems with the virtual desktop.

I use KDE 4.4.4 with compositing (using kwin) enabled.

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--- Comment #21 from Jan Kalab  2010-10-09 03:07:38 CDT ---
This is still an issue for me, as of Wine 1.3.4.

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--- Comment #22 from Peter Norell  2011-07-07 14:47:01 CDT ---
I can confirm this bug exists with wine 1.3.23

The work around described in comment 7 does not resolve my issues.

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--- Comment #23 from sTaTic  2011-07-31 14:08:58 CDT ---
I have the same bug with wine-1.3.24 under Fedora 15 when I use VD.
Without Virtual-Desktop the mouse cursor is always on top and in the center
(annoying).

Comment 7 does help me but I have to start the game in windowed mode and click
on any other window before focusing the game window again.

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--- Comment #24 from Austin English  2013-11-13 16:50:33 CST ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 2 years.
Is this still an issue in current (1.7.6 or newer) wine? If so, please attach
the terminal output in 1.7.6 (see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).

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--- Comment #25 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 47379
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47379
Message that appears when it crashes

This message pops up when the game crashes after pressing any key on the
keyboard. The attachment is what I get when I click Show more info on this
message.

The prgram SporeApp.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
This can be caused by a problem in the program or a deficiency in Wine. You may
want to check the Application Database for tips about running this application.

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--- Comment #26 from Ken Thomases  ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> This message pops up when the game crashes after pressing any key on the
> keyboard.

What you're seeing is bug 35361, which is a different thing than this bug. 
(Bug 35361 is due to a recent Steam update, while this bug is much older).

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--- Comment #27 from Peter Norell  ---
I can confirm that I cannot duplicate this issue with Wine 1.7.8 anymore.

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--- Comment #28 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

same as Peter (comment #27): I can't reproduce this with TF2, resolving
'fixed'.

$ wine --version
wine-1.7.16-134-g0ff879b

Regards

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--- Comment #29 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.7.17.