wine users - Apr 2011 - Unable to use certain keys after setting focus to desktop

I am having a weird problem.  When playing World of Warcraft and now Rift, I
have a keyboard shortcut to set focus to desktop.  When I return to the game
from the desktop, I am unable to use the alpha keys on my keyboard.  I am able
to use all other keys, but the "qwerty" are not responsive.  At first
I thought this was limited to WoW, but I encountered the same problem this
weekend with Rift.

Running wine 1.3.17, Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.  This was previously working for over
a year.   I do not recall any upgrades or the like that broke this.

Output from the console:


Code:


martinezlc99 at martinezlc99:~$ WINEPREFIX="/media/Games/.wine-rift"
padsp wine "/media/Games/RIFT Game/riftpatchlive.exe"
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface
{ea1afb91-9e28-4b86-90e9-9e9f8a5eefaf} of class
{56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x2002a, 0x17df60): stub
fixme:win:FlashWindowEx 0x32e844
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCANDIDATEPOS
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl WS_SIO_UDP_CONNRESET stub
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry L"ReleaseDate"
in Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry L"Genres" in
Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry L"Version" in
Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry
L"WindowsSystemPerformanceRating" in Game Definition File not yet
supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry L"Developers"
in Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry L"Publishers"
in Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry
L"GameExecutables" in Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GAMEUX_ProcessGameDefinitionElement entry
L"ExtendedProperties" in Game Definition File not yet supported
fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0x136600,
L"Z:\\media\\Games\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe", 0x33f9e8)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f49c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface
{ea1afb91-9e28-4b86-90e9-9e9f8a5eefaf} of class
{56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33eecc,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f21c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:dxgi:dxgi_device_init Ignoring adapter type.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f1b0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer,
this is not properly supported.
Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if
possible.
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to
context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x17da30,0x17d990): stub
fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33eed0,0x00000000), stub!
martinezlc99 at martinezlc99:~$ err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change
threading model of this apartment from apartment threaded to multi-threaded
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x189838,0x189738): stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:d3d:state_zfunc D3DCMP_NOTEQUAL and D3DCMP_EQUAL do not work correctly
yet.
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
err:d3d_texture:wined3d_texture_apply_state_changes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
aniso) @ texture.c / 391
err:d3d_texture:wined3d_texture_apply_state_changes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
aniso) @ texture.c / 391
err:d3d_texture:wined3d_texture_apply_state_changes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
aniso) @ texture.c / 391
err:d3d_texture:wined3d_texture_apply_state_changes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
aniso) @ texture.c / 391
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation ((nil),0x33e49c): stub
fixme:win:GetRawInputDeviceList (pRawInputDeviceList=(nil),
puiNumDevices=0x33e4fc, cbSize=8) stub!




Any ideas?

j0nnyf1ve wrote:
> When I return to the game from the desktop, I am unable to use the alpha
keys on my keyboard.
Are you running those games in virtual desktop, window or full screen mode?

Any key combination that are different from standard [alt]-[tab] & Co will
break most windows games in regards to loosing focus.

vitamin wrote:
> 
> j0nnyf1ve wrote:
> > When I return to the game from the desktop, I am unable to use the
alpha keys on my keyboard.
> 
> Are you running those games in virtual desktop, window or full screen mode?
> 
> Any key combination that are different from standard [alt]-[tab] & Co
will break most windows games in regards to loosing focus.

Thank you for the response.  

I guess I am not understanding what you mean.  For whatever reason, the alt-tab
combo does not work in WoW or Rift.  I do not have anything else bound to this
shortcut in Gnome.

Consequently, I created a new keyboard shortcut to close all windows and go to
the desktop - Alt F1.  So I hit this shortcut and then surf the web, update
mp3s, etc.

When I return to the game, certain keys do not work....but others do.  I am
clueless as to why this is happening.

To be clear, this was previously working before.  I created a new wine prefix
for Rift and the problem still persists.

Any ideas as to what I could check?  I am have tried running the games in
fullscreen and windowed and the problem still exists.

Thanks for the help.

j0nnyf1ve wrote:
> For whatever reason, the alt-tab combo does not work in WoW or Rift.
This points that those games do something special when they loosing focus.

To get around that use virtual desktop mode.