Application minimizing resizes it to icon size.

[Meelis Mägi]

Hello, i have a silly question.

Why does application resized to icon size when it gets minimized ?
(also when switching desktops, but thats acts as minimizing i think)

Reason i ask is that, there is MMO Ryzom (ryzom.com), that gets a bit
confused when minimized and ingame UI gets messed up (only game i know
that has this problem)

If i comment out SetWindowPos() line in X11DRV_UnmapNotify() function
(file dlls/winex11.drv/winpos.c), then ingame ui stays ok.

thanks

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2007 18:56 schrieb Meelis Mägi:
> Hello, i have a silly question.
>
> Why does application resized to icon size when it gets minimized ?
> (also when switching desktops, but thats acts as minimizing i think)
>
> Reason i ask is that, there is MMO Ryzom (ryzom.com), that gets a bit
> confused when minimized and ingame UI gets messed up (only game i know
> that has this problem)
>
> If i comment out SetWindowPos() line in X11DRV_UnmapNotify() function
> (file dlls/winex11.drv/winpos.c), then ingame ui stays ok.

Does that happen in a virtual desktop, or without it?

[Meelis Mägi]

2007/8/23, Stefan Dösinger :
> Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2007 18:56 schrieb Meelis Mägi:
> > Hello, i have a silly question.
> >
> > Why does application resized to icon size when it gets minimized ?
> > (also when switching desktops, but thats acts as minimizing i think)
> >
> > Reason i ask is that, there is MMO Ryzom (ryzom.com), that gets a bit
> > confused when minimized and ingame UI gets messed up (only game i know
> > that has this problem)
> >
> > If i comment out SetWindowPos() line in X11DRV_UnmapNotify() function
> > (file dlls/winex11.drv/winpos.c), then ingame ui stays ok.
>
> Does that happen in a virtual desktop, or without it?

commands i used to run Ryzom:
1)wine client_ryzom_rd.exe
2)wine explorer.exe /desktop=ryzom,1280x1024 client_ryzom_rd.exe
(minimizing Ryzom window inside wine desktop)

Ryzom hates to be resized to icon mode in both occasions. it detects
the size change and relocates ingame UI accordingly.  window in
bottom-left is moved to top-right, bottom-right to top-left etc. its
completely Ryzom's problem that it behaves like that.

i was just curious why does wine resize application window to icon
size when application is minimized (and it's not just in one place,
all over the code ;-)

thanks.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2007 20:02 schrieb Meelis Mägi:
> commands i used to run Ryzom:
> 1)wine client_ryzom_rd.exe
> 2)wine explorer.exe /desktop=ryzom,1280x1024 client_ryzom_rd.exe
> (minimizing Ryzom window inside wine desktop)
>
> Ryzom hates to be resized to icon mode in both occasions. it detects
> the size change and relocates ingame UI accordingly.  window in
> bottom-left is moved to top-right, bottom-right to top-left etc. its
> completely Ryzom's problem that it behaves like that.

Ok, in that case I have no idea about the problem. There was a change recently 
to catch focus losses away from wine correctly, but that patch caused 
unintuitive behavior in virtual desktops. When the virtual desktop looses the 
focus now, apps see that they lost the focus and react to it. Especially for 
games this is strange. I do not know if I should consider that behavior a bug 
though. It is correct to report the focus loss, since the focus is indeed 
lost, but apps minimizing in the VD isn't optimal either.

But I do not think that this is related to your problem.