On November 18, 2002 10:23 am, Fredrick P. Lackey wrote:
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?
How wonderful it would be if it were true! :) I think it's fair to say you can run _more_ apps if you make use of _some_ native dlls, but running *any* app is way too optimistic ATM.
- 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.
This must be the stupid desktop option. Make sure you have "Managed" = "Y" in the [x11drv] section in ~/.wine/config
- Is there an easy way within Linux/Wine to determine what native DLLs
the application should/could use?
It can be set, on a per app basis, in the [DllOverrides] section of the above mentioned file.