[Wine] Multiple Office 2007 Pro PowerPoint Windows Lock Up Laptop

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 15:11:01 CDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, hayhursm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> dimesio wrote:
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>> hayhursm wrote:
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>> > I'm using MS Office 2007 Pro on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 through wine-1.3.17.  After a while my laptop will just freeze (like someone took a screenshot) when I have multiple PowerPoint windows open.  This problem seems to be only associated with PowerPoint and not the other Office Apps.  Also, whenever I minimize the PowerPoint windows they will group together on my taskbar but little gray square boxes appear on the top left hand side of my screen.  It takes a bit of clicking around to get a different PowerPoint window to maximize after it has minimized as well.  Any help is always greatly appreciated.
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>> The problem with the "square boxes" and minimizing/maximizing is a known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108
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>> Your laptop freezing is Wine exposing some other problem with your system, most likely a buggy graphics driver. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7f5c96516e61609acb0b2de9c0e6e97eadaff31a
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> Thank you for the quick reply and info!  Hopefully these issues will be resolved in the next stable release perhaps?
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The reply to this message was the problem has nothing at all to do
with wine. So no it will not be resolved in any future version of
wine.  You need to figure out if the problem is faulty hardware or
your OS has a buggy video driver or some other driver.

John



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