GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 573958
Most wine programs run without minimize button, on-top and bad focus
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:09:11 UTC
Please describe the problem: I made a full descripytion of this in the following Ubuntu report, please read : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/202456 I also added comments to the following Wine report : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2841 Summary : With Gnome, Wine applications may run in a most ugly way. They have no minimize button. Setting Wine Config|Graphics|Allow WM control off alleviates. But Wine windows minimize to desktop, stay on top and keyboard input may go to the underlying windows instead, plus taking weird screenshots and more I found that System|Preferences|Appearance|Visual Effects being turned off is a condition for the problem to occur. Hence, it's unavoidable on unaccelerated video, old and cheaper hardware. Ubuntu assigned this bug to Metacity (because it's the one used w/o V Effects). But Ubuntu sounds more like wanting to close this ugly bug than fix it. People wanting to use Linux on cheaper hardware use Metacity. They are plagued by this bug when they want to run small games, most of them being small Windows programs. Thanks. Steps to reproduce: 1. see Ubuntu report for a program to run and screenshots. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/202456 Actual results: No minimize button, not on the task bar etc... Expected results: To have some way to minimize the window AND restore it later Does this happen every time? yep Other information: Thanks.
Please note that the reason for opening this bug is http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2841#c18 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2841#c20 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2841#c27 to at least receive an opinion from WM developers. Thanks.
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