[Wine] Cannot maximise or resize window.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 11 June 2007, jc wrote:
> I want to run s7raw on Kubuntu fiesty
> http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlto/9919/s7raw.html
>
> It is a small single .exe program that can be run in windows without
> installing. I first installed the version of wine in the ubuntu repos
> and have since upgraded to the most recent version available in the
> winehq repos but get the same problem with both versions.
>
> I have managed to get the program to run but there is no maximise
> button and I cannot 'grab' the window border to resize it. I just put
> the prog .exe into the c:\Programs directory created by wine and ran
> it by right clicking on the exe and selecting open with wine.
>
> Also how do I create a more convenient way of starting the prog? I
> assume I could create a shortcut but what would be the command needed
> to run that exe through wine?

What settings are you using in the Graphics tab of winecfg?
Which window manager are you using in Linux?

a more convenient way to start the program would be to create an 
appropriate .desktop file and put it in your desktop folder. It will 
have an Exec value of 'wine 'C:\Programs\<filename>.exe

alan


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