Hi, i installed Wine using yast and configured it using winesetup. Suse 8.0 with KDE 3.0.1. Now if I alt+F2 and type wine I see the wine glass and the cursor flashes for a brief second and disappears. I checked the help message and got this: wine requests its own values in windows registry. Please use the script 'wine_set_default_reg' to set the values. This warning is printed every time but the update of the registry is needed only once after update of wine or windows. Did that, same thing. Am I missing something here? Nick
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:48:39AM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
Hi, i installed Wine using yast and configured it using winesetup. Suse 8.0 with KDE 3.0.1.
Now if I alt+F2 and type wine I see the wine glass and the cursor flashes for a brief second and disappears. I checked the help message and got this:
wine requests its own values in windows registry. Please use the script 'wine_set_default_reg' to set the values. This warning is printed every time but the update of the registry is needed only once after update of wine or windows.
Did that, same thing.
Am I missing something here?
Yes, you need to start "wine foo.exe" ciao, Marcus
Hmm . On Wednesday 24 July 2002 11:59, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Yes, you need to start "wine foo.exe"
Er. Since I've never used it before, and haven't installed any programs yet, I'm not sure what to replace the "foo" with. I tried "write.exe", "notepad.exe" and "help.exe" as guesses which in retrospect was rather naive. Basically, I would like to see what I thought wine would look like: a little window with a faux-M$ Windows desktop within it. Is this simply wrong? I have a copy of win4lin which I have to install. Perhaps that's the way to go. But I thought wine would at least give me something pretty to look at in the meantime! Thanks for the help, Nick
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:20:13PM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
Hmm .
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 11:59, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Yes, you need to start "wine foo.exe"
Er. Since I've never used it before, and haven't installed any programs yet, I'm not sure what to replace the "foo" with. I tried "write.exe", "notepad.exe" and "help.exe" as guesses which in retrospect was rather naive. Basically, I would like to see what I thought wine would look like: a little window with a faux-M$ Windows desktop within it. Is this simply wrong?
Yes. I used wine with Mathcad a while ago. One does: wine mathcad.exe in Konsole f.x, and when you've got it set up right, lots of output in Konsole ensues. Lots of output! You may get a lot of errors too, but many of those IINM are basically debugging info. Mathcad appears, as an app in KDE, with KDE borders/decoration. You don't get a W$ desktop. What happens is that wine acts as an interpreter between the app and your system. So when the app wants something, it talks to wine, believing that it's talking to W$. Wine then negotiates a 'deal' with linux on behalf of the app. Usually you want a GUI running, which is why I'm mentioning Konsole. Few (if any) W$ apps will run without, but wine takes care of talking to X as well :) You might need to specify the full path to your app, YMMV.
I have a copy of win4lin which I have to install. Perhaps that's the way to go. But I thought wine would at least give me something pretty to look at in the meantime!
Did for me. Mathcad in KDE *is* kind of pretty :) HTH Jon Clausen
Nick, If you're trying to run MS applications, you might want to look into CrossOver Office. It runs MS Office Suite perfectly (at least on my machine...so don't flame me.). I also run a couple non-MS applications as well. It's a pretty sweet program. If I could get Dreamweaver working on it I'd delete my Windows partion. Tom On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 03:20, Nick Selby wrote:
Hmm .
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 11:59, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Yes, you need to start "wine foo.exe"
Er. Since I've never used it before, and haven't installed any programs yet, I'm not sure what to replace the "foo" with. I tried "write.exe", "notepad.exe" and "help.exe" as guesses which in retrospect was rather naive. Basically, I would like to see what I thought wine would look like: a little window with a faux-M$ Windows desktop within it. Is this simply wrong?
I have a copy of win4lin which I have to install. Perhaps that's the way to go. But I thought wine would at least give me something pretty to look at in the meantime!
Thanks for the help, Nick
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Hi, On Wednesday 24 July 2002 17:28, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Nick,
If you're trying to run MS applications, you might want to look into CrossOver Office. It runs MS Office Suite perfectly (at least on my machine...so don't flame me.). I also run a couple non-MS applications as well. It's a pretty sweet program. If I could get Dreamweaver working on it I'd delete my Windows partion.
Thanks for that. I'm actually trying to run photoshop 6 and possibly MS office, though SO 6 is for my money great. But I'll check this out. Nick
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Nick Selby wrote:
i installed Wine using yast and configured it using winesetup. Suse 8.0 with KDE 3.0.1.
In the installation you have two possibilities: - use an already existing/mounted windows partition on your drive - or create/fake your own windows registration. After you installed it simply run "wine /windows/c/programm/notepad.exe" or whatever explication (with the excact path to its exe file) you want to run. To get an overview what windows programms can be run via wine on your linux box see the wine homepage. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit
On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:28, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
In the installation you have two possibilities: - use an already existing/mounted windows partition on your drive - or create/fake your own windows registration.
I chose the second as I'm on an entirely Linux notebook
After you installed it simply run "wine /windows/c/programm/notepad.exe" or whatever explication (with the excact path to its exe file) you want to run.
The wine homepage faq suggests that I do wine /usr/windows/sol.exe (using a UNIX filename) So I downloaded NoteTab Pro, unzipped it and then did wine /home/nick/.wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/Accessories/np/Setup.exe This worked! I got a setupo menu, and it setup the program. Tee-riffic. Then I did wine /home/nick/.wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/NoteTab\ Pro\ Trial/NotePro.exe And I'm back where I started. Five or six little wine-glass-shaped-cursor flashes and then nada.
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Nick Selby wrote:
On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:28, Oliver Fuchs wrote: wine /home/nick/.wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/NoteTab\ Pro\ Trial/NotePro.exe
What does the logfile saying? Didyou run this command on xterm? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit
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