Unable to interact with wine realised window

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I use wine for older games and software, and it works very well from a not-exactly-emulation viewpoint. Most software works, and what doesn’t work I can usually find why it doesn’t.

However, I regularly have problems with window management. Look at this:

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The icon to the left of VLC is a setup that runs forever (multiple hours), because it only works with 1 CPU core. It is finished now, but I cannot interact with it in any way. I can minimize all other windows and still cannot find the window. It doesn’t appear in the window list (the Windows key).

I’ve tried to interact with the window using xdotool, finding out the ID and bringing it to the front, using either windowfocus or windowactivate. Both seem to do something (the focus switches away from my terminal), but there’s still no window to interact with.

I can theoretically interact with the window using the Meta key, then right clicking the task:

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But nothing happens when clicking there, and I am out of ideas on how to proceed. Does anyone have suggestions on how do analyse the situation?

Edit 1: DE is Gnome Wayland. Maybe this is a Wayland problem?

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I get similar under KDE and have to alt+tab to change back to the WINE window, I generally just run in a different workspace now so there is less chance of me minimising it.

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The window is not in my Alt-Tab list. And I kept it in the front, but it disappeared somehow. I can only see that it is still running by checking the processes and the entry in the bottom bar, as pictured.

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Yer similar but slightly different, myself put thia down to WINE

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Tell me more about the game. Do you use winegui and logs in it? I’m just trying to catch (you) up.

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You learn something every day. I am using Lutris, and I did not even know something like WineGUI exists. Will take a look. Thanks.