Firstly, I should try disabling alt + mouse click window movement in your window manager.
That is noted in the useful wine FAQ as a possible fix:
Even in full screen mode, window managers typically capture some keys. For example, in KDE and GNOME, Alt+Left Click is used to move the whole application window by default. Thus, this key combination is not available to applications in Wine. You have to disable the colliding combinations in your window manager.
You may also want to try earlier versions of wine
with playonlinux
as well as the fix discussed above, if just the fix itself doesn't work.
Playonlinux
allows you to select older wine versions, install your program in a fresh wineprefix
, and then use the specified wine
version to run your program. It doesn't matter what version of wine
you have installed to the system.
Firstly, install the program with:
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
1) Start playonlinux
and go to tools > manage wine versions and view the list of older versions that you can install. Select the version you want and click the arrow to the right and go through the installation procedure.
The available versions go right back to wine
0.9 and to the latest 1.5 release, and so there should be a version that will be useful for you and solves the problem.
2) Now, go to file > install > 'install a non listed program' and choose 'install a program in a new virtual drive'. Now, you can get to the screen below and select the version of wine
that you want to use.
3) Finish the installation by going through the various screens and playonlinux
will complete the process and should give you a launcher on the desktop. If not, the program will be available within the initial playonlinux
menu screen.
For backing up your prefix and settings within playonlinux
, please see my answer here:
wine
? wine-1.5.27. You may need to report this problem as a regression inwine
, if the program worked fine in earlier versions.