Re: Problem with explorer desktop and PAINT messages

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Jesse Allen"  writes:
> WaitForSingleObject in kernel32. The read call is in wait_reply of
> dlls/ntdll/thread.c and that is where that thread gets stuck.

Does this help?

diff --git a/server/window.c b/server/window.c
index 8254793..5ceab49 100644
--- a/server/window.c
+++ b/server/window.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static struct window *create_window( str
     }

/* if parent belongs to a different thread, attach the two threads */
-    if (parent && parent->thread && parent->thread != current)
+    if (parent && parent->thread && parent->thread != current && !is_desktop_window(parent))
     {
         if (!attach_thread_input( current, parent->thread )) goto failed;
     }