wine users - Dec 2008 - How do I get the Wine *WINDOW* to grab control of my mouse?

Hi,

For some (most?) games the screen edges are used for scrolling/turning, etc.
Running them in Wine is no problem in full-screen, but in Windowed mode the
mouse just moves off, and if the mouse has been 'jerked' fast enough, it
is left within the window some distance away from the screen edge. Meaning the
window doesn't scroll/your character doesn't turn.

Is there any way for Wine itself to grab the mouse such that it cannot escape
the Wine window? Dosbox does this, for example, and a certain key combination
releases the lock.

I know that there's a "allow DirectX app to stop the mouse leaving
their window" option, but most games won't be run using DirectX because
of speed issues, and it doesn't work, for example, when running Warcraft III
in OpenGL.

Thanks for the help

lostandfound wrote:
> I know that there's a "allow DirectX app to stop the mouse leaving
their window" option
This option been broken for past 5 years you can ignore it.

Wine does not grab pointer(XGrabPointer) so there is no way to prevent it from
leaving Wine window.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, lostandfound wrote:
> For some (most?) games the screen edges are used for scrolling/turning, 
> etc. Running them in Wine is no problem in full-screen, but in Windowed 
> mode the mouse just moves off, and if the mouse has been 'jerked'
fast
> enough, it is left within the window some distance away from the screen 
> edge. Meaning the window doesn't scroll/your character doesn't
turn.
See
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971#c172
- this is the second most popular bug in Wine. :-)

Someone should change the bug's description to better reflect that it also 
refers to "edge-scrollers".

Regards

M.Kiesel wrote:
> 
> See
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971#c172
> - this is the second most popular bug in Wine. :-)
> 
> Someone should change the bug's description to better reflect that it
also
> refers to "edge-scrollers".
> 
> Regards

Thanks, I did see that bug before but didn't think it referred to the same
thing. After all their problem is that the mouse is not warped to always be in
the middle of the screen, not that the mouse should be constrained not to cross
the edge of the screen.

Anyway, I worked out a workaround. Wrote a HOWTO for that here,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011515