Hello!
First of all, WINE is awesome.
I'm only having one small issue, and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.
I'm using WINE 1.9.11 (Staging). When I quit the Windows application I'm using, its icon remains in my OSX dock with the "active" dot below it, and it's labeled as "wine." When I click the icon, nothing happens. Ctrl-click on it shows that Force Quit is the only quit option, but that doesn't work, even when I'm holding Alt.
The "wine" app shows up (as the blank sheet of paper icon) in the Command-Option-Escape Force Quit menu, but it doesn't quit. Nothing resembling it shows up in either Terminal nor Activity Monitor.
If I launch the .exe I was using or another one, it works fine, and when I quit it, it adds another icon to my dock, which does the same thing, next to the other(s) already there. So they just build up, doing nothing.
My computer doesn't restart or shut down, I'm guessing because it thinks the app is still active. The only way I've gotten rid of the icon(s) in the dock and restarted the computer is by holding the power key.
Has anyone else had this issue, and does anyone have a fix for it?
Thank you!
.exe icon remains in dock, can't shut down or restart
Re: .exe icon remains in dock, can't shut down or restart
Where did you get Wine from: built from source, WineHQ package, or some third party (Wineskin, Winebottler, etc.)? Does the problem also occur in the development release?
Re: .exe icon remains in dock, can't shut down or restart
Hi! I was using the WineHQ package for staging, and I should have noted I'm on the El Capitan OS.
Here's the story...
I wound up uninstalling Wine to make sure that would solve the problem. It didn't. I restored from my Time Machine backup, which happened to be the Yosemite OS. Everything went back to normal, of course. Shutdowns were fine. Then I reinstalled El Capitan. Everything still fine. Then after reinstalling a security update for El Capitan, the problem returned.
After much research I found out it was my Wacom tablet software that is not compatible with El Capitan (specifically triggering after the security update, I guess), but was still in the startup applications list. This was what was blocking shutdown, as the OS didn't know what to do with it once active. Turns out there's a whole laundry list of plugins and drivers that are having this problem in El Capitan.
I still have yet to reinstall Wine to give it another go, so it's possible the icon-in-the-dock issue remains.
For now the problem is solved. When I get around to reinstalling Wine, if the problem recurs I'll have more specific (and Wine-specific) feedback.
Thank you for your quick response!
Here's the story...
I wound up uninstalling Wine to make sure that would solve the problem. It didn't. I restored from my Time Machine backup, which happened to be the Yosemite OS. Everything went back to normal, of course. Shutdowns were fine. Then I reinstalled El Capitan. Everything still fine. Then after reinstalling a security update for El Capitan, the problem returned.
After much research I found out it was my Wacom tablet software that is not compatible with El Capitan (specifically triggering after the security update, I guess), but was still in the startup applications list. This was what was blocking shutdown, as the OS didn't know what to do with it once active. Turns out there's a whole laundry list of plugins and drivers that are having this problem in El Capitan.
I still have yet to reinstall Wine to give it another go, so it's possible the icon-in-the-dock issue remains.
For now the problem is solved. When I get around to reinstalling Wine, if the problem recurs I'll have more specific (and Wine-specific) feedback.
Thank you for your quick response!
