Windowing bug under KDE4.1

[Evil Jay]

I've replaced my video card and am now having MUCH better results with
CounterStrike:Source (I love Wine!). Most of my problems were due to
a defective EVGA 9600GT.

However, I discovered a new windowing bug today with CS:S and other
Source-based games (I verified the same behavior under the Zombie
Panic total conversion) running under KDE4.1 (no Compiz, Kubuntu 8.10b1).

Do this:

1) Start CS:S on your first desktop.
2) Configure CS:S to run in windowed mode in a window smaller than
your desktop. You should see a CS:S window with your standard KDE
windows decorations. So far, so good....
2) Use the pager applet to flip to a second desktop
3) Flip back to the first desktop.
4) At this point you will see not only a window with your standard
KDE windows decorations, but inside that window will be a Windows
window with Windows decorations. All mouse clicks will be offset by
the number of pixels equal to the second, Windows, titlebar. (You
have to click below everything)

You can recover by using the Windows titlebar to maximize the game
window - which will maximize the KDE window and get rid of the Windows
window. Then, flip to the second desktop. Flip back to the first
desktop and you will again have a Windows window inside your KDE
window again. Hit the restore button on the Windows window, and the
KDE window will shrink back to normal size and the Windows window will
have disappeared. Wow, that's some redundant use of the word "window".

I hope some dev can make sense of my rambling and use it to improve
Wine. Thanks.

[vitamin]

However, I discovered a new windowing bug today with CS:S and other
Source-based games (I verified the same behavior under the Zombie
Panic total conversion) running under KDE4.1 (no Compiz, Kubuntu 8.10b1).

Does it happens without virtual-desktop?

[James McKenzie]

Evil Jay wrote:

I've replaced my video card and am now having MUCH better results with
CounterStrike:Source (I love Wine!). Most of my problems were due to
a defective EVGA 9600GT.

However, I discovered a new windowing bug today with CS:S and other
Source-based games (I verified the same behavior under the Zombie
Panic total conversion) running under KDE4.1 (no Compiz, Kubuntu 8.10b1).

Do this:

1) Start CS:S on your first desktop.
2) Configure CS:S to run in windowed mode in a window smaller than
your desktop. You should see a CS:S window with your standard KDE
windows decorations. So far, so good....
2) Use the pager applet to flip to a second desktop
3) Flip back to the first desktop.
4) At this point you will see not only a window with your standard
KDE windows decorations, but inside that window will be a Windows
window with Windows decorations. All mouse clicks will be offset by
the number of pixels equal to the second, Windows, titlebar. (You
have to click below everything)

You can recover by using the Windows titlebar to maximize the game
window - which will maximize the KDE window and get rid of the Windows
window. Then, flip to the second desktop. Flip back to the first
desktop and you will again have a Windows window inside your KDE
window again. Hit the restore button on the Windows window, and the
KDE window will shrink back to normal size and the Windows window will
have disappeared. Wow, that's some redundant use of the word "window".

I hope some dev can make sense of my rambling and use it to improve
Wine. Thanks.

Evil Jay:

First thank you for the longish explanation of your problem. However,
posting it here may not get it fixed. Can you file a bug report in
Bugzilla after checking if a report already exists. Also, can you
update the Applications Database with your findings? I don't want your
hard work to be lost in the mailing list/forum shuffle.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

[vitamin]

Can you file a bug report in
Bugzilla after checking if a report already exists.

He already did and send e-mail to wine-devel... It's called cross-posting and never viewed as a good thing.

[James McKenzie]

vitamin wrote:

James McKenzie wrote:

Can you file a bug report in
Bugzilla after checking if a report already exists.

He already did and send e-mail to wine-devel... It's called cross-posting and never viewed as a good thing.

Defintitely. It is also a good thing to post the bug number here as
well, correct?

James McKenzie

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Evil Jay" <[email protected]> wrote:

I hope some dev can make sense of my rambling and use it to improve
Wine. Thanks.

This not a proper place to report bugs, bugs.winehq.org is.

--
Dmitry.