[Wine] Weird fullscreen behavior with 0.9.57 and 0.9.58
Hi all,
Since two WINE versions, I’m experiencing the same behavior reported in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10755 but related to two other fullscreen’ed programs:
EVE Online v.4.10.51200 Premium
World of Warcraft 2.3.3 w/Burning Crusade
Before starting a regression (I’m ready to do that but my machine isn’t the fastest kid in town, so I want to be sure it’s a needed task), or even post a bug report/comment on the above one, is this “new” behavior planned, wanted, expected or otherwise intended? Let me resume what happens:
Upto WINE 0.9.56: in the two fullscreen applications I use, if I alt-tab out of them, the next window in the X11 window list is raised on top of the fullscreen’ed WINE app, receives focus, accepts HMI events, and I can interact with it. I can return to my fullscreen game with another alt-tab. Or I can browse other windows in the list, by keeping the alt key pressed and tapping the tab key multiple times.
That’s how both programs behave natively on the Windows machine next to my linux rig. That’s how X11 generic fullscreen apps behave. That’s how I’d expect WINE to work.
From WINE 0.9.57 to 0.9.58 (current, AFAIK): if I press alt-tab and keep the alt key pressed from within one of the games, the WM shows me the window list, with the next window in list highlighted and ready to be raised. When I release the alt key, the selected window will briefly appear on top of the fullscreen’ed game, only to be immediately covered again by the fullscreen WINE app. The fullscreen WINE app retains the focus, and all X11 input goes to WINE.
I could, however, try to “force the appearance” of the covered window by pointing at the window list while I keep alt-tab pressed. If I manage this weird keyboard/mouse combo, the sunken window stays on top till I release alt-tab; if I click on the raised window title bar, AT TIMES (but not always!) I can make the window stay on top, but at the same time the fullscreen app will minimize itself!
Sometimes, trying to pull this trick, the X11 interface freezes completely (as if nothing had the focus anymore!) and I must VT-switch and kill the WINE app to regain control of the X server.
The rest of relevant info about my system:
Athlon XP 2500+, 2GB RAM, linux kernel 2.6.24.4
nvidia GeForce 6600GT, binary drivers 169.12
Xorg 1.4.0.90, WindowMaker 0.92.0
Is there a known workaround to restore the old behavior? Or this seems like a bug with WINE I should further investigate and report in the appropriate place (bugzilla/appDB)?
Thank you all in advance.