VDQ? M$ wizards (in Wine) hogging screen

stan gryt2 at q.com
Fri Dec 10 21:10:15 UTC 2010


On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:50:36 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 	When I try to install any M$ app with wine, the install
> wizard hogs the whole screen, so that I can't get to anything else
> while it's doing what it calls work. Can I override this somehow,
> confining it to its own Gnome workspace and letting me use the
> others?? 
> 
> 	(I never do anything whatever on full screen. The background
> is what tells me which machine (behind a KVM switch) I'm on.)

So it doesn't let you use the Ctrl-Alt-Left and Crtl-Alt-Right keys to
switch workspaces?  That seems ill behaved.  I can't recall ever having
an application do that in X.  mplayer does that in the console though.

How about Alt-F10 to minimize it?


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