keyboard inop as user, works as root

unclejed613 · Post by **unclejed613** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:36 am

recently installed wine on a slackware 12.2 system. both root and the non-root user account have separate wine filesystems, so there's nothing globally installed. as the non-root user, i ran winetricks and installed a majority of the items in winetricks, and now all programs in wine under the non-root account have no keyboard input. was there something that winetricks installed that can cause this, and how do i return to a plain vanilla wine (if nothing else works)?

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:02 am

"unclejed613" <[email protected]> wrote:

recently installed wine on a slackware 12.2 system. both root
and the non-root user account have separate wine filesystems

Unless you have a very unusual situation, it's not advisable to
run wine as root (or sudo).

as the non-root user, i ran winetricks and installed a majority
of the items in winetricks,

The recommended approach is to use winetricks only to the extent
necessary to get particular applications to work.

and now all programs in wine under the non-root account have no
keyboard input. was there something that winetricks installed
that can cause this

It would seem so

how do i return to a plain vanilla wine (if nothing else works)?

rm -rf ~/.wine

unclejed613 · Post by **unclejed613** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:56 pm

ok, did that..... i think i found another detail. when i use "emulate a virtual desktop" in wineconfig, it shuts off keyboard input to programs running under wine. i got most of the software i want to use in wine reinstalled, and i tested each one for keyboard input. then i went into wineconfig and turned on the virtual desktop, and that's when i lost the keyboard. i went back and turned off virtual desktop and got the keyboard back again.