wine users - Oct 2011 - WINE 1.3.14 and mouse

I was wondering about those mouse issues...
> Having other weird mouse issues? Try downgrading to wine 1.3.14. 1.3.15 and
up introduced a complete overhaul of certain mouse handling code and screwed up
more than a few things.
I'm using a touchpad on a laptop with WINE 1.3.31
Some but not all games have an "escaping mouse" phenomenon.
What happens is that the cursor has effectively 2 speeds - normal and fast, with
both present on the screen. Should mouse movement cease, the cursor defaults to
the "normal speed" position.
This can be a huge headache when you want to click a button and end up panning
the screen because the fast cursor reached the edge of the screen, or worse yet,
pressing another button!

Are there any plans to fix this soon? Or should I not expect any fix for that in
the near future?

Jenia wrote:
> I was wondering about those mouse issues...
> 
> > Having other weird mouse issues? Try downgrading to wine 1.3.14.
1.3.15 and up introduced a complete overhaul of certain mouse handling code and
screwed up more than a few things.
> 
> I'm using a touchpad on a laptop with WINE 1.3.31
> Some but not all games have an "escaping mouse" phenomenon.
> What happens is that the cursor has effectively 2 speeds - normal and fast,
with both present on the screen. Should mouse movement cease, the cursor
defaults to the "normal speed" position.
> This can be a huge headache when you want to click a button and end up
panning the screen because the fast cursor reached the edge of the screen, or
worse yet, pressing another button!
> 

I don't know if it helps, but have you tried playing with the winecfg
settings?
In particular the capture mouse option, as well as the virtual desktop option.

Otherwise you could try changing windowed/fullscreen mode in the game, and if
everything fails you could try the registry:

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

look for DXGrab and MouseWarpOverride.

Another thing that can be tried is a native direct input dll (dinput.dll), and
another is to try an older wine version, and if it works, bisect to find the
patch that broke it for you.

Good luck, good hunting.