Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

[Mr. Mulder]

Just installed Wine which went perfectly, installed my shop bought copy of Half Life 1 Anthology and steam, all went smoothly (had to install a .ttf file into the fonts dir to view text on the install) - Steam opens, can see everything, my only problem is that I can't click on games at the top to get to my installed games, none of the top buttons seem to be clickable?

the only thing i can think of is maybe its a java thing? though I can view all the advertisements for other games on the splash screen?

Any ideas?

[opie]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

I don't have a solution for you. I can only direct you to some of your best options for finding help.

You will probably get more help for this in wine support, such as chat support:

http://www.winehq.org/site/irc

Konversation, under kmenu-internet is the kde irc client.


It sounds like it is very similar to the issue mentioned here which points to a wine mouse synch problem you might want to google more information on.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10359


If you haven't seen it yet this is the page in the wine db for steam and talks about some issues people are having.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1554

[Mr. Mulder]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

Thanks a lot Opie, you were spot on with the mouse sync problem! Realised I have to point just to the bottom right of where the buttons are, not so much of a problem as half life runs with perfect accuracy! Just seems to be the steam interface, all is running smoothly now except there's no sound but i'm guessing that's a common problem with a solution out there somewhere, will google it now

thanks again

[Mr. Mulder]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

I'm being told to end my distros Sound daemons to get the sound playing correctly in game, how do i find out what Sound daemons are running and how to i end them and also, what would be affected by ending them?

[opie]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

If you have sound outside of wine you may just need to choose the correct driver configuration in wine. Run winecfg from the command line. In the audio tab you would typically be running alsa or, secondarily OSS. Make sure something is checked, generally alsa. You can also play around with some of the directsound settings and see if that helps.

I wouldn't jump into doing anything outside of wine because that will impact all sound on the system.

[opie]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

I have seen your other thread.

I would think that

ps aux

would catch them if they were running.

you could

ps aux | grep arts
ps aux | grep esd

Just ignore the output with grep in it because the grep command itself will show up in the results. Esound is tied to gnome. If you shut them down the worst that could result would be needing to reboot to get back to where you were.

Another thing to check might be kmenu-run command-kcontrol
Under sound and multimedia-sound system if "enable the sound system" is checked try unchecking it. This will silence cutesy system sounds.

[Mr. Mulder]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

Thanks for the help!

Sorry but I'm not at all familiar with the command line yet, does this mean they're running?

[img width=400 height=296]http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9427/snapshot11ic6.png[/img]

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9...pshot11ic6.png

edit: did what you said, rebooted - sound works perfectly! thanks again

[opie]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

The problem is resolved? Was it turning off the system sounds?


For information on your results from ps. The line showing usr/bin/artsd means the analogue real time synthesizer daemon is indeed running. The other lines with grep are simply returning info about the command you were running.
If you wanted to shutdown artsd you would look at the PID or process ID and then would use the kill command. 5357 is the PID in your picture. This number can change in future as you reboot or so on. Since the user in the far left column is rob and not root you should be able to simply

kill 5357

This sends default sigterm signal to the process.
If it belonged to root you would have to use:
sudo kill 5357


If it is working now I would leave everything alone and not kill it. This is just for future information.

[Mr. Mulder]

Re: Steam - can't click on games/top menu buttons

Thanks, I didn't kill anything, just typed what you said in the first post then rebooted and now its working!?

I'll know what to do if the problem occurs again though thanks. So is ps aux the equivalent of Task Manager? And instead of End Task you just use kill "code here"?