Wine Issue

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Nov 22, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Mark Hart wrote:
> 
> I'm currently using wine-devel @1.8-rc1_0 on my mid 2015 MBP running 10.11.1.  I like to run Notepad ++, WinVice, Windows Notepad, and a few other applications under Wine.  Up until recently they have worked perfectly.  Now, when running any of these, if I switch to an OS X application and then switch back, they get the spinning ball of death and I have to force quit out of Wine.  
> 
> Example:  I'm writing some code in Notepad ++, I switch to an OS X application, copy some text, and then switch back to Notepad ++ all I get is the spinning ball of death.
> 
> I have deleted my drive_c folder and allowed Wine to recreate it and then install a fresh copy of my Windows apps to see if that solves the issue.  No change.
> 
> I would estimate that this has occurred for the last few development Wine builds.  However, I'm not sure if it is a Wine issue or a MacPorts issue.
> 
> Has anyone here encountered this problem?
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> I apologize in advance if this isn't the place to post this.

MacPorts doesn't do anything special to wine; it just builds and installs it. So this would be something you should report to the developers of wine.