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RE: DirectX 8.1
by Hugo on Tuesday February 8th 2011, 8:45
I think if you check the checkbox "allow directx to keep mouse in program" (or something similar) in the "graphics" tab of winecfg that your mouse should be captured in the wine window unless you close wine or rotate the desktop cube.
Not 100% sure about that though. Let me know if it helped.