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auser wrote:I don't wonder if it works but how it works via wine especially if the major linux-guis lacks that behavior

Because it's not a normal client using a gui toolkit (GTK in this case) like the other programs running on your linux desktop.
It emulates (in the sense they reversed and rewritten) the windows API, so it just inherit the behavior you would expect from the GDI/Win32 API under windows and it uses the graphical primitives of x11 directly to recreate the windows gui, not a linux toolkit. Going down the chain the lowest stuff it's mapped to the equivalent stuff available in the linux kernel.

So: it's not a surprise a win exe does not suffer from the limitations discussed in this thread when executed on linux through wine.

uses the graphical primitives of x11 directly

Guess you are right. At least it seems there is no limitation in x11 itself but just in the GUIs.