[Wine] Some thing about Gigaget

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 13:47:16 CST 2009


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:51 AM, MicroCai <microcai at sina.com> wrote:
> First, sorry about my English.
> Gigaget stopped response when Wine pop-up to ask me to install Gecko and
> I click Install.
>
> The console output just say some thing deadlocked, and keep on saying
> it. I have to use xkill to stop Gigaget, Ctrl+C just cannot work.
>
> Then I use ie4linux,
> and run Gigaget's setup from within the IE
> Gigaget runs well.
> Why ?
> Is that a bug of gecko?
> And I don't want to use IE.

It's a bug in Wine's IE implementation, possibly gecko, urlmon,
shdocvw, mshtml, etc. File a bug at winehq. For now, you can use
ies4linux (or preferably, 'winetricks ie6') to work around it so your
app works.

> Gigaget is the English version of Thunder.Thunder is the only program
> that can download results from www.sougou.com
> And www.sougou.com can provide free search&down , no need to search
> further more.
> And Thunder is the only reason why many people around me stick with the
> M$ OS
> Buy the way, Thunder cannot run under Wine with or without ie4linux.

Can you file a bug for that as well?

-- 
-Austin



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