wine users - Mar 2007 - Some strange window bahviour with Papyrus in wine

Hello

(I hope this is the correct group for this post - if not I am sure you
will tell me where to go :-))  )

I use wine 0.9.23-12.1 in Suse 10.1 on my laptop to run Papyrus (a word
processor originally written for the Atari platform and now available for
Windows).

I have been very pleased with recent versions of wine as it seems now to
be working almost perfectly for Papyrus :-)

However, I have noticed in these two more recent versions that if I select
"allow the window manager to manage created windows", then I get some
difficulties.

If I open a few document windows, then change the topped window using the
panel at the bottom of the screen, then I can have problems using the
menus on that topped window, and sometimes also the menu shortcuts.  So
cntrl/s may not do the save for instance, and also, after using cntrl/o to
call the file selector to open a file, then deciding not to open it, the
topped window may have changed to the window for the last document that
was opened, rather than staying as the one I was using.

If I select the window I want to use from the Papyrus menus, I do not get
the problem.  Alternatively, if I choose to "emulate a virtual
desktop",
then again I don't get the problem.  However, I prefer not to use that as
the minimising of the windows seems to work poorly- strange graphics, and
they overlapo each other.

I don't know if this has only just started with these recent versions, as
it is only now that I have got the laptop, that I have started to use
Papyrus on a daily basis.

Does anyone else have similar problems ?

Cheers

Paul (W)

Paul Williamson <paul.williamson@zetnet.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> (I hope this is the correct group for this post - if not I am sure you
> will tell me where to go :-))  )
Yeah, thats the one.
> However, I have noticed in these two more recent versions that if I select
> "allow the window manager to manage created windows", then I get
some
> difficulties.
That this mode still has its problems is well known, that's why there
are the other ones. You make no mention of how the third option works
for you, i.e. no virtual desktop and no window managment by the WM.

Daniel