Child windows doesn't interact with mouse input.

bl4derunner · Post by **bl4derunner** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:32 pm

Hi all, I'm quite new to Wine, but sofar I just LOVE it! It just blew me away how many essential windows-only apps now run under Linux.

I'm having one curious problem with a financial program (Exact Compact for Windows) I have to work with. It installs and it runs just perfect, except that the childwindows it generates (which are crucial) don't accept any click from the mouse. To make it worse, keyboard navigation is poorly supported in this overpriced package.... if only I had a choice.
Everything else in the program is clickable, menu's, dialogs...

Is this a known problem? Anything I can do to pass the mouseclicks to the childwindows?

Thanks!

Paul Romanyszyn · Post by **Paul Romanyszyn** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:21 pm

On 07/07/2010 06:32 PM, bl4derunner wrote:

Hi all, I'm quite new to Wine, but sofar I just LOVE it! It just blew me away how many essential windows-only apps now run under Linux.

I'm having one curious problem with a financial program (Exact Compact for Windows) I have to work with. It installs and it runs just perfect, except that the childwindows it generates (which are crucial) don't accept any click from the mouse. To make it worse, keyboard navigation is poorly supported in this overpriced package.... if only I had a choice.
Everything else in the program is clickable, menu's, dialogs...

Is this a known problem? Anything I can do to pass the mouseclicks to the childwindows?

Thanks!

Sounds like a focus problem and wine has some issues related to mapping
the Microsoft windows type into the various X window types.
See the FAQ about running in a virtual desktop.

Also try other window managers like xfce or KDE with or without compiz
enabled