WINE won't accept some keyboard input.

I'm not entirely sure whether this is the right place to ask something about WINE, but since most people do, I think it's fine.
Anyway, I'm having a little trouble with WINE. It won't read some input on some games like Astro Tripper and Warning Forever. It works perfectly (almost) on Ragnarok private server stuff, but on these two, i dont know.
Specific to Astro Tripper:
-The only button I can press is Enter. I can start the game then crash into a wall And yeah, the escape key works too. Arrow keys wont work, even in the menu.
Warning Forever:
- The only button that works is F12, which does only one thing: restart the game. Arrow keys wont work, even in the menu. [edit: works now. solves only this problem though]
Limit RO
- Flawless, except public chat. You can ignore this problem
What I tried to do:
- remove all wine config stuff and reinstall wine. Also, installed the latest DX redistributable.
Warning Forever is a very small game (700kb). I hope someone figures this out. Btw, I also tried running on both wine with virtual desktop and without virtual desktop
Last edited by kpbotbot (2010-09-11 11:05:27)

Exactly same thing here! I thought it was because of Musca (WM) because I changed a lot of its full screen handling code.
Musca can switch between floating and tiled. This makes for the following:
Tiled: Wine won't get input except at the start of the game sometimes not even
Switch to floating: Wine gets input
Cycle in group and back to Wine: Wine does not get focus until you switch to Tile and back to Floating
Cycle to another group and back to the Wine group: Wine keeps focus
So for the most comfortable usage where I switch to and from Wine a lot I have to put it in its own group in Floating mode.
Perfect Dark can regain focus by clicking some search keys.
Last edited by Procyon (2010-09-11 13:31:02)

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