wine users - Dec 2011 - Re: unusual text/mour/menu behaviours

hello, 
As suggested, I have removed the POL installation and installed WINE 1.3.28 on
an Ubuntu 11.10 installation.
 
I continue to experience difficulties with how windows are rendered in WINE for
the FirstClass mail application.

The application runs well except for a few very annoying things: 
- when a window first opens, it doesn't interact with the mouse properly: 
1) no matter where the window opens on the screen, menus will open in the top
corner of the display
2) you cannot select text properly, the mouse selection jumps all over the
screen

Both of these behaviors disappear if you move the windows a little with the
mouse before you try to select text or select a menu. It is like the application
is unsure of where the window is on the screen, until you move it a bit.

I've tried a few things to solve this: 
- switching the riched20.dll native (didn't work) 
- switching between various versions of wine (didn't work) 
- When I turn off "allow the window manager to decorate the windows'
and 'allow the window manager to control the windows' this strange
behaviour disappears. However, this makes the Wine application windows always
stay on top of everything else - interfering with work.

So, does anyone have another suggestion for resolving this problem that I might
try?

john_lee wrote:
> hello, 
> As suggested, I have removed the POL installation and installed WINE 1.3.28
That version is old; upgrade. 
 
> 
> - When I turn off "allow the window manager to decorate the
windows' and 'allow the window manager to control the windows' this
strange behaviour disappears. However, this makes the Wine application windows
always stay on top of everything else - interfering with work.
> 
> So, does anyone have another suggestion for resolving this problem that I
might try?
Sounds like a window manager problem. Try a different one.

Hello,
Thanks for your suggestions.
I updated wine to 1.3.35 but I still experience the strange window behaviour for
context menus and text fields.  Originally I thought it was only for FirstClass
mail, but other windows applications also behave the same way (including
MSOffice and the WINE configuration application).

I tried wine under gnome 3 to test to see if changing the window manager would
alter the behaviour - and wine works fine under gnome 3.  I would rather use
unity for now...So my question - where would I log this as a bug?  Is this a
Wine problem or a Ubuntu Unity problem?

Thanks

john_lee wrote:
> So my question - where would I log this as a bug?  Is this a Wine problem
or a Ubuntu Unity problem?
> 
File a bug with Ubuntu.