There are two main modes of play in XWA: skirmish and mission. Skirmish mode works well with Crossover Games; however, mission mode has a severe bug regarding keyboard focus. In order to launch your ship on a mission, you must press SPACE. However, a mode shift during initialization takes keyboard focus away from the window, and pressing SPACE has no effect.
There is a winehq bug which provides a workaround:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854
To regain keyboard focus, you must:
1. Run the app in a wine desktop window. The workaround only works in window mode. 2. Move the mouse outside of the window. Do NOT click. 3. Alt-TAB to a separate window. 4. Alt-TAB back to XWA (do NOT click!). 5. Press SPACE. 6. Move the mouse back into the window (do NOT click).
This has been verified with XWA 1.0 and 2.02, on Crossover Games Linux v7.0.0. However, v7.1.0 does NOT work as well. You will be able to launch the mission by using the space bar, but most single key commands will NOT work (only ESC and SPACE). Interestingly, multi-key commands will work (e.g. SHIFT-D).
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