wine users - Jan 2010 - My app doesn’t respond to keyboard shortcuts without focus.

Hello all.
First I would like to say that this is the first time I have tried to use wine
and I was completely blown away that I was able to simply ?next next finish? the
app install as I would have on windows.

For that I thank you.


With that said, the application I?m trying to use needs to interact with the
operating system? and as far as I can tell it is captivated to the wine
?desktop?.

The application I?m using is a text to speech program I have been using on
windows for several years now called ?2nd Speech Center?.

The program has a 30 day trial that can be downloaded from here
(http://www.zero2000.com/files/iiscsetup.exe).

There are two keyboard shortcuts that I primarily use with the program.

Ctrl+alt+E ? starts to read the content of the clipboard
Ctrl+alt+C ? stops the read

When I?m on the program, the shortcut combinations work flawlessly? however when
I?m anywhere else on the system, they don?t.

I have checked that the key combinations are not taken by anything else on the
system that I can find and changing them to something else doesn?t help.

How can I make the keyboard combinations work from the OS into wine?



My OS is Ubuntu 9.10x64
The wine version is the latest 1.1.37

In addition but less important, the program is supposed to listen to changes in
the clipboard and read the text when it?s copied into it?.

While I understand that this issue is probably caused by the same captivation
that affects the key combinations and I can live without the feature? when on
windows I do use it regularly and therefore would like to get it back if
possible.

As I?m completely new to the wine program, any assistance you may offer will be
appreciated.


Thank you in advance for any assistance, Aviad.

aviad wrote:
> When I?m on the program, the shortcut combinations work flawlessly? however
when I?m anywhere else on the system, they don?t.
Correct, Wine does not support setting system wide hot-keys. If you look at the
terminal you'll see few fixmes related to that.

Ok? so run the program through the terminal and got a ?fixme? message like:
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (#######): stub
I there anything I can do to work around this problem?

Thank you in advance.

aviad wrote:
> I there anything I can do to work around this problem?
See this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348 It has a patch that
implements some of that functionality. Dunno if it still applies/work.

Thanks but I?m simply calling it a day for now.

Compiling a program is where I draw the line as far as what I?m willing to do to
get an application working.

Either it does or it doesn?t?

This seals off my 7th attempt at switching to Linux and sadly its simply isn?t
there yet.


Thanks for your time.