http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12103
--- Comment #2 from Steven Maglio smaglio81@gmail.com 2008-03-19 02:52:10 --- Thank you for the quick reply!
What Ctrl+C trick?
In the "Get Newsleecher Running in Ubuntu/Linux" thread on NewsLeecher forums (http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13822), there is a post by Sasquatch which reads:
"If you use a terminal to run NL, you can use CTRL+C a few times to speed up the startup. Don't press it too often, sometimes it starts after 3 hits, sometimes it takes up to 7-8 hits."
Does: $ rm -rf ~/.wine $ wine newsleecher_setup.exe $ wine newsleecher.exe
Fix the problem?
Yeah, that would probably do it. But, wouldn't that be like throwing out the baby with the bath water?
I had this happen once before with NL 3.8 final release. But, at that time, I had the opportunity to upgrade to a beta release, NL 3.9 Beta 9, which solved the problem.
This is just a theory, but it seems like a window manager might be loading the last "screen position" (upper left x,y coordinate and the windows width and height) when re-initializing NL's main display. Perhaps, when I was pressing Ctrl+C, it caused the main display to load before those values could be properly read into the window manager. So, the window popped up with both width and height values equal to zero. Then, when I closed the program, it stored the zero values back to disk. And it is now trying to load them every time.
I don't know if any of that is true. But, it is a theory.