Please Fix:"Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leavin

JeZ-l-Lee · Post by **JeZ-l-Lee** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:39 am

Please Fix:"Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window"

Hi,

Can you fix the option:
"Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window" ?

There are MANY games I can't play
because the above option does not work.

Thanks!

Jesse "JeZ+Lee"

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:11 pm

JeZ-l-Lee wrote:Please Fix:"Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window"

Good luck with that. It never really worked. Ever, not counting a special kind of DDraw games (haven't seen a single one yet, but the code is there...).

AJ stated that until Wine will be stable enough it should never completely grab mouse/keyboard input. You'll need to reboot/power off/remotely kill Wine if it crashes while grabbing controls.

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:32 pm

A long, long time ago the code worked when we were using Transgaming their old DirectDraw code, but we dropped their DirectDraw code years ago. This old piece of code which can't be entered anymore just waits to be removed....

winefan62 · Post by **winefan62** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:20 am

Currently the only working "fix" is Xinput2 patch from Bug#6971, it work very good, not perfect since it cause "double mouse in menu" bug for some games, mainly Accassin's Creed games.

I don't know why it's still not commited in wine because this patch is mandatory for MANY (if not all) modern games.

DanKegel said Ubuntu repository will soon provide wine packages patched with this fix.

If you can't wait, just download latest unstable wine sources and apply this patch yourself, it's easy and you can use this wine build as your "system" one.

Regards,

WineFan62

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:25 pm

On 04/03/2011 05:20 AM, winefan62 wrote:

Currently the only working "fix" is Xinput2 patch from Bug#6971, it work very good, not perfect since it cause "double mouse in menu" bug for some games, mainly Accassin's Creed games.

I don't know why it's still not commited in wine because this patch is mandatory for MANY (if not all) modern games.

Good luck if it's something you need, but I very much hope it is an
option and can be easily turned off. None of the games I play require it
and -not- having DirectX trap my mouse in the window is one of my
favorite things about gaming in Linux. I have had Windows gamers make
jealous comments about it even.