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I just upgraded crossover to 7.1 or whatever the newest version is. I completely uninstalled the old version, even using the additional command as root before installing a Ubuntu X64 binary on my machine. I then proceeded to open steam. It worked ok, except that everything outside my virtual desktop space turned black. Since steam is supposedly well supported, I asked wineconfig to integrate the windows with my desktop. It started to open steam, and brought up the connecting to account dialog, but then the Steam and Updated News dialogs popped up in the taskbar, unaccompanied by visible windows. Apparently, however, the windows were in existence, as they stole mouse input from the applications behind them if they were in focus, and by clicking, I could produce new windows (in the taskbar). Finally, if I right clicked and closed the windows from the taskbar, they became visible for a fraction of a second before disappearing. This occurred on 8.04 with compiz-fusion enabled. Setting the applications not to be controlled or decorated by the window manager (but not in a virtual desktop) did not fix the problem. What gives?

I have the exact same problem! (By 'visible' in your above paragraph, I assume you mean invisible). If I turn off compiz and use metacity, I can see the windows. It must be that the new version of CXGames doesn't like compiz. That makes me sad...

We've had problems with Compiz all the time, particularly with decoration-less windows like Steam's. It is new to me that this is specific to the new release, but I'll ask our testers to check that.

Thanks for the quick reply. It definitely did not happen in 7.0.0; I never tried any of the unsupported builds.

Any news on this? I think it is annoying to have to turn off Compiz to use Steam, often I don't actually want to even run any games.

I am also having this problem..will continue checking this thread to see if there is an update. I hate having to disable compiz-fusion.

I am having this same problem. Does anyone know if this has been resolved yet?

Or how can I disable compiz so I can see Steam?

Or would it be good to use an older version like 7.0.0

Thanks :)

Assuming you use Linux, simply turn of extra desktop effects. In ubuntu, you can do this by going into System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects. There, you can switch it to off. Solved the problem for me, at least.

Thanks! I am using linux and that worked perfectly.

Dunno who Conrad Buck is, but oh well. At any rate, my problem wasn't that the Steam application was invisible (or anything else) but rather that the Steam application window never seemed to open completely and could not be opened, it would simply sit down on the task bar. At any rate, disabling compiz solved the problem here as well, TY :)

Ok, it said From: "Conrad Buck" here, hence the statement, no offense intended. I see it's using my name now so all is well :)