Wine Setup

[cacook at freedom.net]

Thanks for the competent answers Francois.

It has been necessary for me to switch to VMware, as I spent a month trying to make Wine work and my boss finally kicked it. (nearly kicked Linux)
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C.

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Francois Gouget wrote:

>    Sorry for not answering before. I'm not sure to have all the answers
> (being a Debian user I don't use CW Wine) but here goes anyway.
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001 cacook at freedom.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Still have these questions:
> >
> > CWp3 winedbg symlink is broken.  How to fix?
>
>    Ah. I thought this only happened on my system because I did not
> execute the postinst when unpacking CW Wine. But it seems to be wrong on
> your system too so I'll report it as a bug.
>    Assuming that you installed CWWine in the default location
> (/opt/wine) the fix is to do the following as root:
>
> $ cd /opt/wine/bin
> $ rm winedbg
> $ ln -s wine.bin winedbg
>
>    I'm not sure if the debugger is set to run automatically in the
> registry. If not then you'll need to set up the AeDebug key as per:
>    http://wine.codeweavers.com/docs/wine-devel/dbg-config.shtml
>
> > I am hearing that in order to deinstall a Windows program, you must
> > compile a certain proggie from the sources.  It doesn't seem to come
> > with CWWine.  Best avenue?
>
>    This must be the uninstall program Uwe Bonnes was talking about. The
> problem is that CWWine does not include any of the programs in programs/
> (this includes regapi too). I think the best would be to get the Wine
> source, compile it, and then go to programs/uninstaller and compile it
> too.
>
> > I chose Desktop mode, as I need two apps running simultaneously.
> > Freedom, which is my privacy app and netscape-mail must run
> > together, as mail is fetched through Freedom.  I'm hearing that each
> > winprog is run as new process.
>
>    You will most likely hit a problem with inter-process message
> passing. AFAIK, this has been broken ever since Wine implemented the
> address space separation by which windows processes are loaded in
> separate Unix processes. Running in a desktop will not change that
> unfortunately.
>    (Someone, correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> > Is it possible to run two winprogs in one Wine desktop?
>
>    Good question. I never use desktop mode but indeed, each time I start
> a new application it gets a new desktop. This used to work (a long time
> ago, before address space separation probably).
>
> > Should there be a taskbar on the desktop?  If so, how would I
> > enable?
>
>    Wine does not provide a taskbar. I guess you're asking this in
> relation with your previous question. Well, it is my understanding that,
> normally, just starting a new program the same way you started the first
> one should make it appear in the same desktop.
>    For now I would not recommend using the Desktop mode.
>
> > I understand that every time X fonts are changed, Wine freezes for a
> > period until these are assimilated.  But when I run a program
> > (QuoteTracker), it runs for about 2 minutes (with a random script
> > font) then freezes; indefinitely.  I need to kill the Wine window
> > and the server process, so no debug info.  This happens with other
> > Win proggies as well.  I presume this is happening on a font scan.
> > What could be wrong?
>
>    This is probably not related to fonts. Can you run this application
> through the steps described in the 'Finding and Reporting Bugs' section
> of the Wine User's Guide?
>    http://wine.codeweavers.com/docs/wine-user/bugs.shtml#AEN2033
>
> > Wanting to set up a common Wine config for all users, so tried
> > symlinking to a user's /$HOME/.wine files.  But even root fails when
> > running a Wine program, with something like 'root is not the owner
> > of the process'. (referring to the folder in .wine dir)  Possible to
> > fix?
>
>    I'm not sure about this one. The subject of having a global Wine
> configuration file has been debated a lot a long time ago and it was
> more or less decided that it would be better to use individual
> configuration files. Ove Kaven may have done something in his Debian
> packages though.
>    Anyway, the problem you're having sounds like the user trying to
> start Wine has a .wine symlink that points to a directory that does not
> belong to him. On startup the wineserver needs to create a directory and
> socket .wine and I believe it will refuse to do so if the ownership and
> permissions are not right (for seurity reasons).
>    What you could try is to keep one .wine directory per user but
> symlink 'config' and '*.reg'.
>
> --
> Francois Gouget         fgouget at free.fr        http://fgouget.free.fr/
>                   In a world without fences who needs Gates?
>
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