----- Original Message ----- From: "Fredrick P. Lackey" fred.lackey@marbellasoftware.com To: wine-devel@winehq.com Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:23 AM Subject: Dual boot solves everything?
Gentlemen,
First of all, thanks to everyone with your input so far. I've now been able to get IE v6.0 up and running as well as a few other less important applications. Which brings me to a few more questions.
- Since it is possible to use native DLLs with applications, can one
assume that on a dual boot machine with Win98 SE2 and Red Hat v8.0 that it would only be necessary to install the desired application under Windows, then add native DLLs to the Wine config file to get [almost] *any* Windows application to function?
See below.
- Each time I launch a program, a black window appears that seems to
make up the "shell" (for lack of a better term) for that instance of the application. This window is always somewhere around 800x600 pixels. Is there any way to not show this window and/or get the size to be something else? I am running in 1600x1200 resolution and only using half of the screen is frustrating.
The best way (in fact the only way) I know of is to edit your config file. Find the option that says "Desktop" = "800x600" and put a semicolon in front of the whole thing. If you happen to need to run an app in a desktop window (as compared to fullscreen) check the AppDefaults section towards the bottom.
- Is there an easy way within Linux/Wine to determine what native DLLs
the application should/could use?
The best way to get the apps you want to run with native dll's is to set the * option under DllOverrides to native, builtin, but that isnt exactly helping our cause, we want to get apps to run with the builtin (to wine) dll's instead of the native ones.. And even when trying to load native apps, you wont get many popular programs to work. I discovered that to install AIM you have to run wine in NT40 mode, and it has to already be installed (!) Apparently it installs to a temp dir, then looks for the files to exist in the install dir, and then moves them to the install dir from the temp one, and even then the install failed when I tried to run it from the installer, because it didnt copy over most of the files... So I dunno...
-Dustin