[openbox] Re: wine and focusing

Bernhard Stöckner elven at swordcoast.net
Wed Oct 3 07:33:58 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On 6/27/07, Bernhard Stoeckner <elven at swordcoast.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Bernhard Stoeckner wrote:
> > > Im using some applications in wine that frequently open up new windows,
> > > show some status bar in them, then close them again. Each and bloody
> > > every time that happens, focus gets shifted to those windows, and I
> > > have to wait for it to finish. focusNew is set to no.
> > >
> > > Its annoying as hell. Is that fixable?

For anyone having the same or similar issues: A viable workaround is to make 
wine appear in its own WM-managed desktop window:

winecfg -> Graphics -> "Emulate a virtual desktop".

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