[Wine] winecfg fails to open X window

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:31, Ivan Kautter wrote:
> List serv subscribers,
>
> I am relatively new to Linux and of course this is my first time using
> Wine. I get this error message when trying to run winecfg:
>
> err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin
> L"winex11.drv": libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
> err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
> err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin
> L"winex11.drv": libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> Application tries to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly
>
> Echoing $DISPLAY gives me this:
> :0.0
>
> X Server is indeed running otherwise I would not be using a browser to post
> this.  Do I need to further specify the DISPLAY variable in this manner:
>
> localhost:0.0
> or
> a variant of this with the full host and domain names specified???
>
> I am assuming this is the problem but I am in no way certain of this.  I
> have seen this kind of error reported in starting up winecfg for the first
> time but with no resolution of the problem that I have seen.
>
> I also did a find for the dll that it claims that it cannot find and indeed
> it cannot be found:
>
> find / libXxf86vm.so.1
>
> find: libXxf86vm.so.1: No such file or directory
>
> Also did find / libXxf86vm.so* and find / libXxf86vm.so
>
> This would also seem to be a serious problem but perhaps I searched for it
> in an inappropriate manner.
>
> Any assistance greatly appreciated.  If you can, post your explanations
> with the assumption that I am a newbie as I pretty much am.  Thanks for
> your time and attention.
>
> Ivan Kautter

Hi Ivan. This is just a thought. Check if you have the apps "dialog" , and 
"whiptail" installed, which are used by the shell as a simple window for 
configuring stuff. I don't know which distro you are using. With Debian, or 
Fedora Core/Planetccrma, you will be able to look in synaptic to see if they 
are installed. Nigel.
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