http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2538
------- Additional Comments From markknecht@gmail.com 2006-17-01 18:34 ------- OK, I tried setting it up in a virtual desktop. Now the splash screen I'm seeing is at least not stuck on all four Gnome work spaces. That's an improvement. However I am now seeing two splash screens. One splash screen is stuck at the front of my virtual desktop. There is a second splash screen with some tabs (About, Restrictions, Purchase, Support, Various) that was in back but I can bring it to the front of the other splash screen. I Cannot find an easy way to dismiss this other than hit the small 'x' in the upper right. When I do that I get a black virtual desktop for about 3 second and then the whole thing goes away and I'm back in the terminal.
Thanks for the hint on the virtual desktop. That seems helpful. I did not get any messages about setting up audio. To be very sure I completely erased my .wine directory and reinstalled from scratch. No messages like that. I tried running winecfg and setting an audio driver. That didn't seem to help either. I still get two splash screens, and when I dismiss the one the whole app goes away.