unusual text/mour/menu behaviours

[john_lee]

hello,
I'm using PlayOnLinux to manage my Wine installations.
I am attempting to use FirstClass email client with wine on an Ubuntu 11.10 installation.

The application runs well except for a few very annoying things:
- when a window first opens, it doesn't interact with the mouse properly:
1) no matter where the window opens on the screen, menus will open in the top corner of the display
2) you cannot select text properly, the mouse selection jumps all over the screen

Both of these behaviors disappear if you move the windows a little with the mouse before you try to select text or select a menu. It is like the application is unsure of where the window is one the screen, until you move it a bit.

FirstClass is the only application I currently have that displays this behaviour.

I've tried a few things to solve this:
- switching the riched20.dll native (didn't work)
- switching to various versions of wine (didn't work)
- When I turn off "allow the window manager to decorate the windows' and 'allow the window manager to control the windows' this strange behaviour disappears. However, this makes the Wine application windows always stay on top of everything else - interfering with work.

So, does anyone have another suggestion for resolving this problem that I might try?

[jjmckenzie]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:26 AM, john_lee <[email protected]> wrote:

hello,
I'm using PlayOnLinux to manage my Wine installations.

Any problems with POL MUST be directed to them. We cannot support any
program running through POL as the package maintainers usually
customize in some fashion the installer for Wine, be it a patch to
code, added functionality or registry keys.

If you desire to get assistance here, you will have to obtain Wine and
use any hints/tricks in the Applications database for your program.
If you have to use a patch from Wine's Bugzilla, you will have to
report problems encountered with the resulting Wine product in the bug
report.

James

[john_lee]

hello,
As suggested, I have removed the POL installation and installed WINE 1.3.28 on an Ubuntu 11.10 installation.

I continue to experience difficulties with how windows are rendered in WINE for the FirstClass mail application.

The application runs well except for a few very annoying things:
- when a window first opens, it doesn't interact with the mouse properly:
1) no matter where the window opens on the screen, menus will open in the top corner of the display
2) you cannot select text properly, the mouse selection jumps all over the screen

Both of these behaviors disappear if you move the windows a little with the mouse before you try to select text or select a menu. It is like the application is unsure of where the window is on the screen, until you move it a bit.

I've tried a few things to solve this:
- switching the riched20.dll native (didn't work)
- switching between various versions of wine (didn't work)
- When I turn off "allow the window manager to decorate the windows' and 'allow the window manager to control the windows' this strange behaviour disappears. However, this makes the Wine application windows always stay on top of everything else - interfering with work.

So, does anyone have another suggestion for resolving this problem that I might try?

[dimesio]

hello,
As suggested, I have removed the POL installation and installed WINE 1.3.28

That version is old; upgrade.

- When I turn off "allow the window manager to decorate the windows' and 'allow the window manager to control the windows' this strange behaviour disappears. However, this makes the Wine application windows always stay on top of everything else - interfering with work.

So, does anyone have another suggestion for resolving this problem that I might try?

Sounds like a window manager problem. Try a different one.

[john_lee]

Hello,
Thanks for your suggestions.
I updated wine to 1.3.35 but I still experience the strange window behaviour for context menus and text fields. Originally I thought it was only for FirstClass mail, but other windows applications also behave the same way (including MSOffice and the WINE configuration application).

I tried wine under gnome 3 to test to see if changing the window manager would alter the behaviour - and wine works fine under gnome 3. I would rather use unity for now...So my question - where would I log this as a bug? Is this a Wine problem or a Ubuntu Unity problem?

Thanks

[dimesio]

So my question - where would I log this as a bug? Is this a Wine problem or a Ubuntu Unity problem?

File a bug with Ubuntu.