I havent tried it, but I've tried Cedega and custom wine installs. However, a quick google of codeweavers site shows that users w/ Crossover have the same problem. It looks like it keeps coming back to X not allowing non-focus apps to see the keypresses. It also looks like more and more people think the solution(forgive me, I'm far from an expert here) would be to use the /dev/input device. It would be nice if I could just link a serial mouse /dev device to the USB device and set up a serial mouse in VMware. I know one guy had a pretty simple solution that I might just have to use if I want this to work. He took an old serial mouse and hacked it up. He then took the circuit board and one button out and mounted them inside his main linux mouse, and replaced one of the normal buttons on it with the serial circuits button. From there he just wrapped the cords together and he's all set.

On Nov 18, 2007 12:14 PM, Justin Denick <justin.denick@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 16, 2007 10:46 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 16, 2007 1:50 PM, Justin Popa <tehpopa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay so here's the deal. I switched from Linux to Windows for a couple of
> reasons, and really, they were basically dumb reasons that I should be able
> to get around. So here's my thoughts.
>
> The biggest reason I dropped Linux was because of SLI not working(new
> motherboard, so not a problem anymore) and Ventrilo. For those who don't
> know, vent is an application that handles voice chat. When a user hits the
> 'Push To Talk' button they've configured in the program, the software begins
> to stream out the mic audio. In windows this is a simple app, and the push
> to talk button is found using DirectX. In Linux, that's 1 of 2 problems.
> Apparently X will only send keypresses to the current targeted application.
> Meaning if I'm alt-tabbed into WoW or Firefox, I can't use the PTT button.

FWIW, I've had no trouble using TeamSpeak on Ubuntu in the past.
Makes for a great use for the Windows key, actually. But your friends
obviously don't use TeamSpeak.

> My thought is this:
>
> 1) Install VMWare over Ubuntu Feisty or Fed 8
> 2) Install Ventrilo on the VMWare server
> 3) Configure VMWare to use a second sound card for Mic Input and audio
> output, then pump the output from there into my 'Linux' audio card so I can
> hear it.
> 4) Here's the hard part: set up an app that can copy keypresses from the
> mouse /dev device and relay them to the VMWare window.

How does the app behave, under crossover.

>
> I can handle 1-3 no problem, but I don't even know where to start on part 4.
> Anyone ever had to do anything like this?

Sounds awful complicated, but perhaps x2vnc might help with step 4?

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