wine users - Jul 2009 - keyboard inop as user, works as root

recently installed wine on a slackware 12.2 system. both root and the non-root
user account have separate wine filesystems, so there's nothing globally
installed. as the non-root user, i ran winetricks and installed a majority of
the items in winetricks, and now all programs in wine under the non-root account
have no keyboard input. was there something that winetricks installed that can
cause this, and how do i return to a plain vanilla wine (if nothing else works)?

"unclejed613" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> recently installed wine on a slackware 12.2 system. both root
> and the non-root user account have separate wine filesystems
Unless you have a very unusual situation, it's not advisable to
run wine as root (or sudo).
> as the non-root user, i ran winetricks and installed a majority
> of the items in winetricks,
The recommended approach is to use winetricks only to the extent
necessary to get particular applications to work.
> and now all programs in wine under the non-root account have no
> keyboard input. was there something that winetricks installed
> that can cause this
It would seem so :)
> how do i return to a plain vanilla wine (if nothing else works)?
rm -rf ~/.wine

ok, did that..... i think i found another detail. when i use "emulate a
virtual desktop" in wineconfig, it shuts off keyboard input to programs
running under wine. i got most of the software i want to use in wine
reinstalled, and i tested each one for keyboard input. then i went into
wineconfig and turned on the virtual desktop, and that's when i lost the
keyboard. i went back and turned off virtual desktop and got the keyboard back
again.