[PLUG] Odd WINE/Gnome/Windows program interaction

[Jason Dagit]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tim Wescott <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to tell, under Gnome or Wine, where an application thinks
> it has it's windows open?
>
> I've got a Windows app that I'm trying to run under Wine, and it seems
> to have lost track of where it's windows are.  Comments from the
> developer kind of obliquely point to this being an issue under Windows,
> too, so I'm not sure that it's specifically a Wine/Gnome problem other
> than maybe that environment offering more opportunities for confusing
> things.
>
> While I'm waiting for the developer to get back to me, I'm wondering if
> there's a log someplace that I can look in to see where the windows are
> going, and if there's any way that I can reach out and hook them back
> into the visible space.


I think office 97 and office 2000 used to have an issue where sometimes they
would save a negative window position to the registry. This means that on
the next startup some of the windows would show in the taskbar, but the
window itself was placed northwest of your viewable desktop.  The solution I
used to use was to right click on the window in the taskbar, select move
from the menu then press the down and right arrow keys until the window
appeared on screen.

Windows certainly can tell you their (x,y) location.  I don't fully
understand your question without seeing it.

I hope that helps,
Jason