xfce4 problems with Launcher command

[Olivier Fourdan]

Bret,

Just to make things clear, the game doesn't work at all or is it just
one key that is not properly mapped ?

I did try to run winex but the thing won't start... 

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 03:46, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> After that did not work I tried various other changes to the command line
> for winex and nothing worked.  It appears that xfce4 just won't run this
> command game.  However, xfce3 does it fine on the same system.
> 
> I did change the -toconsole to -console which skips the console loading and 
> gives me the main menu.  However, at that point I get an hourglass which 
> never goes away.  I have the game setup to run in 1024x768 but it appears 
> that under xfce4 it's in a different resolution.
> 
> 
> >
> > > Bret,
> > >
> > > Try this:
> > >
> > > Create $HOME/.xfwm4rc and put the following line (as is) :
> > >
> > > focus_hint=false
> > >
> > > and then restart xfwm4. Does it make any difference?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:52, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > > > Managed was already set to yes but the program goes to full screen
> > > > anyway. However, what is strange is that xfce3 has absolutely no
> > > > problem running winex-cvs while xfce4 can not handle it with the same
> > > > program.
> > > >
> > > > > On 05 Jul 2003 10:36:15 +0200
> > > > >
> > > > > Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Brett,
> > > > >
> > > > > The Wine focus bug is a known problem and yet to be solved. The
> > > > > developers originally invented 'GetMouseFocus' for letting a window
> > > > > grab the mouse focus instantly but as far as I can remember that
> > > > > function was broken right from the start. So I definitly consider it
> > > > > to be a Wine bug.
> > > > >
> > > > > The only way I found to "solve" the problem is to let the window
> > > > > manager do his work (like Olivier proposed) and start the Wine window
> > > > > with a little offset lets say -5 pixels on top and on the left side.
> > > > > In most cases that will hide the window manager borders around the
> > > > > window and provides a "as if it was full screen" like look.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bye,
> > > > >
> > > > > Moritz
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Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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