Taskbar buttons missing in Wine 0.9.59

[Miklos Juhasz]

Binary package hint: wine

Some of my apps have no taskbar button and after minimizing the app it can only be closed by killing the process. I'm on Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) with wine version 0.9.59-0ubuntu4.
It seems that Gnome is also affected by this bug: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-April/031757.html
There was a regression of systray icon and the fix was backported to Hardy since 0.9.60 will not be in it. The systray bug is described here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12362

Apparently this bug has been fixed in git (wine-0.9.59-250-g0b64b86) so this fix should be backported as well.

Affected apps on my system (no taskbar button): ImgBurn, DvdDecrypter, IsoBuster.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Do you know which patch fixes the issue?

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

Based on the comments in the mailing lists I supposed that the bug has been fixed, but I was wrong. I have just checked out the entire Wine source tree with git and compiled it on a fresh Kubuntu Hardy (in VirtualBox), installed ImgBurn and experienced the same behaviour.
Half of my applications in wine produce this behaviour but some of them not. It is even more interesting that I can make ImgBurn somehow go "out of focus": I start ImgBurn (I can drop down menus, the app is alive as it should). Then I try to open a project file and it makes the Imgburn window grey and after that I cannot activate it anymore, not even close it. The only way is to kill the process. If I start writing a disc, a dialog should be popped up, but instead the ImgBurn window becomes grey and I have to kill it again.

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

A specific patch does not exist, its only updated in the git version.

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

I do not have comprehensive knowledge about wine so I simply guessed that the missing taskbar buttons problem may come from winex11.drv. I checked the diffs between 0.9.58 and 0.9.59 and noticed a potential reason. I commented out line 202-203 in winpos.c, built a new package. As far as I can tell this solved the problem. I can use all my wine apps again!
This might be just an ugly hack since I do not see the reason behind adding these lines to the source. I can only hope that I could give you a hint about where to start.

The uncommented lines:

if (!(ex_style & WS_EX_APPWINDOW) && GetWindow( data->hwnd, GW_OWNER ))
        new_state |= (1 << NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR);

[Greg Schneider (greg-schneider)]

I can confirm that I am also seeing this with FTPRush in Gutsy. v0.9.59

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

In the changelog I found:

Dmitry Timoshkov:
      winex11.drv: Don't add owned windows to the taskbar.

Hwang YunSong:
winex11: Add owned windows to the taskbar if it has WS_EX_APPWINDOW style.

Related patches (not the corrections but the ones which are the root cause of this bug):
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-March/052089.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-March/052161.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-March/052423.html

Patches were meant to fix the following bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12160
They might fix bug 12160 but are causing serious regression in other apps. In my opinion an LTS release should not be shipped with a wine version containing a bug like this.

[Baptiste Lafontaine (magnetik)]

Any idea if the bug will be fixed in hardy ?

[Motin (motin)]

Running Hardy LTS here and having this issue. Version 0.9.59 ...
Hopefully 0.9.60 will be available as a general Hardy upgrade very soon.

[Motin (motin)]

For those who are looking for a direct solution, add the official wine repository following the instructions at http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -V

...in order to install wine 0.9.60, in which this issue is resolved.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I'm willing to do a stable release update to fix this, however I'll need to figure out which specific patch fixes the problem; simply upgrading to 0.9.60 isn't a good idea, as that likely introduces other regressions. Thank you.

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

I built a Hardy package from 0.9.60 sources as soon as it was released and experienced the same issue. Taskbar buttons were still missing.

[Magnentius (nieuwsgroep222)]

@motin@2008-04-28: I must agree with you. 0.9.60 corrects this bug. But shouldn't that version of Wine appear in the repos? I mean, version 0.9.59 is quite useless so it was a wrong choice to include it in Ubuntu 8.04 as the "stable release".

[brucehd (n1hnj)]

I can confirm this issue occurs under Hardy Heron x86_64 running Gnome+Compiz, with ED2k Hash Builder by HiEv. If the application is minimized, or placed in the background 'behind' other windows, it vanishes, becomes inaccessible, and can only be closed by killing it within System Monitor.

It does _not_ happen with Irfan View, Power Poat A&A, QuickPar, or DVDFab HD Decrypter.

[joe_d (joseph-d)]

I can confirm that this problem exists on Hardy x86_64 running Gnome/Compiz too. I have tried running two programs via Wine 0.9.59:

Nusphere phpEd: 5.2.0 (Build 5240): Program does not show in taskbar

Macromedia Fireworks 8 : Works Fine

As previous people have noted with other programs, the only way to close Nusphere phpEd after minimizing it is to kill the process from the CLI or System Monitor.

[joe_d (joseph-d)]

Update: Just installed the newly-released Wine 1.0-rc3 and am happy to report that Nusphere phpEd 5.2.0 (Build 5240) now displays properly in the taskbar on Hardy x86_64 running Gnome/Compiz.

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

I also have been using the release candidates for a while and they all work fine. I gave up searching for the patch to make 0.9.59 to work. I do not know if it would be possible to backport the 1.0 as soon as it is released (or include it in 8.04.1).

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I will indeed backport 1.0 into Hardy as soon as it's released.

[Yves Glodt (yglodt)]

I can confirm that the taskbar problems disappear after upgrading wine to 1.0 from your ppa

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Fixed in Intrepid. Hopefully the backports team can quickly import Wine 1.0 into hardy-backports soon: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240755

[=0yP)F]|L(0YNrv (ccgjsz8xdbdyyvy-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm getting this problem in Esword and a few other applications.

[=0yP)F]|L(0YNrv (ccgjsz8xdbdyyvy-deactivatedaccount)]

Forgot to say. Ubuntu Natty, Wine from the Wine PPA (1.3.21?)

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Since this bug is Fix Released please file a new bug.