[Wine] Re: Wine and Gnome menus...

[louie928]

mdevour wrote:
> 
> louie928 wrote:
> > mdevour,
> > If it's any consolation for you, I have about the same problem with no Wine application menus in Gnome...
> > Did you figure this out, or dump Wine and move on.
> > 
> > Louie
> 
> 
> Hi Louie,
> 
> Yeah, I'm afraid that Wine has struck out for me so far on the couple of things that I need a windows program for: A simple to-do list manager I made out of Word's outline mode, and a couple of very old games I like to play. Neither would work well with this very old and slow computer with Matrox built-in graphics. 
> 
> Somehow, Wine isn't managing to update the window cleanly in Word, and Starcraft, for one, hangs early during the install. Notice that both of these are likely related to the graphics. Add this to the Gnome menu issue and I figured it's best to give the people time to work out a few more bugs.
> 
> Meanwhile, I've gotten Word to work reliably and with decent speed under VirtualBox, even on this machine, but any games more ambitious than Hearts or Solitaire are painfully slow with the virtualized graphics. So I don't really have a complete solution yet.
> 
> When I upgrade to more modern hardware and more recent versions of everything when Debian Lenny goes stable, both of which I hope will happen soon, I'll revisit and see how things work for me in Wine.
> 
> Mike D.


Mike,
Thanks for responding. It's always good to know you aren't the only one out there with similar experience even if there is no fix. I've had very good results with VirtualBox running XP. I'm on a newer computer with AMD-64 and it's fine for speed. I always want Wine to work because it seems such a neat solution. It's better now than the last time I tried it. Not quite there yet I guess.

Louie