So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below. Is there something else needed besides Wine? What will run in Wine? Any help will be appreciated. I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 and wine-20021107-0 Here is my wine configuration file: WINE REGISTRY Version 2 ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config ;; ;; MS-DOS drives configuration ;; ;; Each section has the following format: ;; [Drive X] ;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root) ;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network') ;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11 characters) ;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number) ;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix') ;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain ;; directory structure. ;; Recommended: ;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32 ;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended) ;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib ! ;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access) ;; [Drive A] "Type" = "floppy" "Path" = "/media/floppy" "Label" = "/media/floppy" "Device" = "/dev/fd0" [Drive C] "Path" = "/wine/fake_windows" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "/wine/fake_windows" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive D] "Type" = "hd" "Path" = "/windows/C" "Label" = "/windows/C" "FS" = "win95" [Drive M] "Type" = "cdrom" "Path" = "/media/cdrom" "Label" = "/media/cdrom" "FS" = "win95" "Device" = "/dev/sr0" [Drive N] "Type" = "cdrom" "Path" = "/media/dvd" "Label" = "/media/dvd" "FS" = "win95" "Device" = "/dev/sr0" [Drive R] "Path" = "/media/cdrecorder" "Type" = "cdrom" "Device" = "/dev/sr1" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive X] "Type" = "hd" "Path" = "/tmp" "Label" = "Tmp Drive" "FS" = "win95" [Drive Y] "Type" = "network" "Path" = "${HOME}" "Label" = "Home" "FS" = "win95" [Drive Z] "Type" = "network" "Path" = "/" "Label" = "Root" "FS" = "win95" [wine] "Windows" = "C:\\Windows" "System" = "C:\\Windows\\System" "Temp" = "X:\\" "Path" = "C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System;X:\\;Y:\\" "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" ; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default. ; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole ; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself. ;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1" "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink" # <wineconf> ; Be careful here, wrong DllOverrides settings have the potential ; to pretty much kill your setup. [DllOverrides] ; default for all other dlls "*" = "builtin, native, so" [x11drv] ; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette "AllocSystemColors" = "100" ; Use a private color map "PrivateColorMap" = "N" ; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations "PerfectGraphics" = "N" ; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens ;;"ScreenDepth" = "16" ; Name of X11 display to use ;;"Display" = ":0.0" ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows "Managed" = "N" ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine ;;"Desktop" = "640x480" ; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present ; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !) "UseDGA" = "Y" ; Use XShm extension if present "UseXShm" = "Y" ; Use XVidMode extension if present "UseXVidMode" = "Y" ; Enable DirectX mouse grab "DXGrab" = "N" ; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual ; (useful to play OpenGL games) "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N" ; Code page used for captions in managed mode ; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0) "TextCP" = "0" ; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup ; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds). ;; "XVideoPort" = "43" ; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems) ;;"Synchronous" = "Y" "Desktop" = "640x480" [fonts] ;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases ;See a couple of examples for russian users below "Resolution" = "96" "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-" "DefaultFixed" = "fixed" "DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-" "DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-" ;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding ;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r" ;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r" ;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r" ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r" ;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts ;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-" ;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed" ;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-" ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-" [serialports] "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0" "Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1" "Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2" "Com4" = "/dev/modem" [parallelports] "Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0" [ppdev] ;; key: io-base of the emulated port ;; value : parport-device{,timeout} ;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented) ;"378" = "/dev/parport0" ;"278" = "/dev/parport1" ;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2" [spooler] "LPT1:" = "|lpr" "LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -" "LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3" [ports] ;"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0" ; "write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0" [spy] "Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;" [registry] ;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false. ;Defaults are read all, write to Home ; Global registries (stored in /etc) "LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y" ; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/) "LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y" ; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory "LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y" ; TRY to write all changes to home registries "WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y" ; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds ; "PeriodicSave" = "600" ; Save only modified keys "SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y" [Tweak.Layout] ;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98' ;; this has *nothing* to do with the windows version Wine returns: ;; use cmdline option --winver if you want that. "WineLook" = "Win98" [Console] ;"Drivers" = "tty" ;"XtermProg" = "nxterm" ;"InitialRows" = "25" ;"InitialColumns" = "80" ;"TerminalType" = "nxterm" [Clipboard] "ClearAllSelections" = "0" "PersistentSelection" = "1" ; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files [afmdirs] "1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts" "2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm" "3" = "/usr/share/enscript" "4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" "5" = "/usr/lib/wine/afm" [WinMM] "Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" "WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv" "MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv" [ppd] "generic" = "/usr/lib/wine/ppd/generic.ppd" # </wineconf> ######################################### # Application dependent sections follow # ######################################### [AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv] ; Lotus Notes R5 installer ; I'm quite not sure this will run on some other machine than mine, but it ; can't hurt "Managed" = "N" "Desktop" = "N" [AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\x11drv] "Desktop" = "800x600" ;;Please, do not edit the next line ;;Configuration for wine version: 20021107
In a previous message, Darrell Cormier wrote:
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". [snip] I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success.
MS apps are renowned for causing problems in Wine. If these are your main need, you could look at CrossoverOffice from Codeweavers. This is a tweaked version of Wine (changes fed back to the source tree) with some extra software so that MSOffice etc. will install. However, it does cost money, although you can get a demo if you ask nicely. But it does allow MSOffice to work almost perfectly in Linux (i.e. about as well as they do in Windows). HTH, John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:32, Darrell Cormier wrote:
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below.
Is there something else needed besides Wine?
What will run in Wine?
Any help will be appreciated.
I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 and wine-20021107-0
Try a demo of CodeWeaver's "cross-over" products. I understand that it works very well. Also, the running in "Desktop mode" issue may have to do with your X config, or wine config, or both. Do a google search and see if you can't find out about other programs that run. I'm running some games in the default wine. Some run very well, some run really slow (like seconds per frame vs. frames per second), and other won't run at all. See, it also depends on how a particular program was coded and the particular system calls/protocols it makes/needs. All in all the cross-over stuff from codeweavers is your best bet for using the M$ Office and IE stuff, and to be honest has the M$ guys really bothered (hehe) because it works so well. Cheers, Curtis -- Billboard Writer vs. Literature = Micorsoft vs. Computing,
-----Original Message----- From: Curtis Rey [mailto:crrey@charter.net] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:48 PM To: linuxdev@xfabtexas.com; suse-linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] Wine problems
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:32, Darrell Cormier wrote:
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below.
Is there something else needed besides Wine?
What will run in Wine?
Any help will be appreciated.
I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 and wine-20021107-0
Try a demo of CodeWeaver's "cross-over" products. I understand that it works very well. Also, the running in "Desktop mode" issue may have to do with your X config, or wine config, or both. Do a google search and see if you can't find out about other programs that run. I'm running some games in the default wine. Some run very well, some run really slow (like seconds per frame vs. frames per second), and other won't run at all. See, it also depends on how a particular program was coded and the particular system calls/protocols it makes/needs. All in all the cross-over stuff from codeweavers is your best bet for using the M$ Office and IE stuff, and to be honest has the M$ guys really bothered (hehe) because it works so well.
Cheers, Curtis
-- Billboard Writer vs. Literature = Micorsoft vs. Computing,
Perhaps too well, I've heard mention that virus attacks on Outlook can work under Wine too.
Perhaps just making an ISO image of the wine directory in a pristine state before and after install the Office/outluck/ie stuff and if infected replacing it with the image. Of course backing up mail, projects, etc.. must be done carefully since reinstalling stuff that is infected puts you back to square one. I find it funny that the M$ stuff is just as vunerable regardless of what environment it's in - lol. I also find some irony to the fact that one can have a M$ targeted infection on a Linux wine installation. Face it, M$ products = please hack me. Cheers, Curtis -- Billboard Writer vs. Literature = Micorsoft vs. Computing,
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:32:25 -0600
Darrell Cormier
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below.
Is there something else needed besides Wine?
What will run in Wine?
The excellent newsreaders Agent and FreeAgent run "almost perfectly" with Wine. It dosn't display images, but the threading, posting, and text aspects are great. There are some glitches in cut'n'paste too, but nothing you can't deal with. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
-----Original Message----- From: Darrell Cormier [mailto:linuxdev@xfabtexas.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:32 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: [SLE] Wine problems
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below.
Is there something else needed besides Wine?
What will run in Wine?
Any help will be appreciated.
I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 and wine-20021107-0
Here is my wine configuration file:
You might have more luck with Office 2000 or Office 97. Even Codeweaver's CrossoverOffice doesn't support Office XP. As for your other applications, did you install them into the fake Windows directory or are you trying to run them from a Windows partition? Usually SuSE doesn't give users executable rights on mounted Windows partitions.
I moved .exe files from the windoze partition to the fake area. Then tried to run them with wine. I read that wine would then automagically retrieve the necessary DLLs; is this not correct? D.C. I'd rather use StarOffice but the boss says M$. Donald Grayson wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Darrell Cormier [mailto:linuxdev@xfabtexas.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:32 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: [SLE] Wine problems
So far the only thing I have been able to get to run with Wine is "notepad". Notepad will only work if I have wine running in Desktop mode. I have tried M$ Project 2000, M$ Word XP, M$ Excel XP plus a couple of other apps but no success. I am using a fake windows installation as you can see from the config file below.
Is there something else needed besides Wine?
What will run in Wine?
Any help will be appreciated.
I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 and wine-20021107-0
Here is my wine configuration file:
You might have more luck with Office 2000 or Office 97. Even Codeweaver's CrossoverOffice doesn't support Office XP.
As for your other applications, did you install them into the fake Windows directory or are you trying to run them from a Windows partition? Usually SuSE doesn't give users executable rights on mounted Windows partitions.
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I moved .exe files from the windoze partition to the fake area. Then tried to run them with wine. I read that wine would then automagically retrieve the necessary DLLs; is this not correct?
Not exactly. If the DLLs are present in the correct place in the fakewindows, wine will use them, but many programs also require their own special settings in the registration database, and those will only be present, if you have actually run the installation program in wine. Copying the .exe file is not enough for such programs. Regards Ole
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