[Wine] Problem with a program called winbox

[Butch Evans]

No input on this question?  Anybody?

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 14:29 -0500, Butch Evans wrote:
> This winbox application is one that I use to manage routers for myself
> and my customers, so it is unlikely that there are many others trying to
> use it.  I have used this program (through several versions of the
> program itself) on my Fedora laptop from FC8 all the way to Fedora 14.
> I don't know what wine versions that spans, but it's over 5 years and it
> has worked flawlessly.  When I first tried to run that application on my
> old laptop, I had some problems in the terminal portion of the
> application (see pictures).  After some reading, I discovered the MS
> Core fonts needed to be installed.  I installed (on my old laptop) the
> msttcorefonts package and the winbox app has worked ever since with
> absolutely no problems.  My old laptop is currently running wine 1.3.12.
> 
> First, some images showing the problem:
> 
> This one shows how the app looks when it is working correctly:
> http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxworking.png
> 
> This one shows the problem:
> http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem.png
> 
> In the above image, you can see the terminal application window is
> completely black other that SOME of the text in the window.  Here's
> another image:
> http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem2.png
> In this image, I caused a bit of text to be output to the terminal.  You
> can see that some of the text is obscured by the black.  Here's the odd
> part:
> http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem3.png
> 
> In this image, all I did was "highlight" the text in the terminal
> window.  All text is visible in this way.
> 
> I have started winbox from the command line with WINDEBUG set and I see
> (among other things) these types of errors:
> warn:font:AddFontToList Unable to load font
> "/home/butche/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts/vgaoem.fon"/(nil) err =
> 1
> 
> (sorry for the line wrap).  I also see errors that are "AddFontToList
> Ignoring font" instead of "Unable to load".  I see either "Unable to
> load" OR "Ignoring font" errors for these fonts (not both for any one
> font).  I suspect that this is where my problem is coming from, as the
> images shown above are very similar to the problem I had on my old
> laptop prior to installing the msttcorefonts package.  
> 
> I installed the msttcorefonts package on my new laptop (where those
> images come from).  I have copied the fonts to
> ~.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts, I have copied them
> to /use/share/wine/fonts.  I have have removed the .wine dir (to create
> a new "virgin" wine bottle (or whatever it's called...sorry if that's
> not the correct term).  I see absolutely no change in the program.  
> 
> After discussing this issue with a couple of people at #winehq, I
> downloaded a liveCD of Ubuntu, installed wine and msttcorefonts and ran
> the winbox app there.  In that environment, it ran perfectly.  I know
> this is not a limitation of my hardware, but a configuration error
> somewhere.  
> 
> I am at a loss and really need to get this fixed.  I am at a point where
> I'd be willing to pay for some help, but if anyone has ideas, please let
> me know where to begin.
> 

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