wine users - Mar 2011 - Team Fortress 2 losing priority/ how to fix?

Specs:
Ubuntu 10.10 64bit
Nvidia 260 GTX driver ver. 260.19.44
4 gig ram
onboard sound

wine ver. 1.3.16

So TF2 runs great, in dx9 mode its all good. 
THAT IS until something pops up on my desktop in the form of a notification or
if I needed to alt+tab to something.

I'm running it windowed at 1280x800 through the steam interface, the winecfg
is not configured to run in a simulated desktop space.

The once stable and sufficient frame rate I was getting prior to the
notification (be it music, messenger client, alt+tab) seems to shut off all
priority from TF2 because I'm reduced to 1 frame every 9 seconds.

The only way to rectify the situation is to quit out of the HL2.exe and then
just wait for the sync and start TF2 back up which is back to running in good
shape.

I can turn off my various notifications but I'd kinda like to be able to
coexist with them if at all possible.

RemiParks wrote:
> I'm running it windowed at 1280x800 through the steam interface, the
winecfg is not configured to run in a simulated desktop space.
Use virtual desktop. Wine has issues with proper focus tracking (more of a
problem between Wine and window manager).

Just enable virtual desktop mode, and run TF2 in full screen mode.