Greetings all. I have been running Wine under Kubuntu Feisty for about the last four months, keeping it updated with the latest wine releases on a weekly basis, I use it to run WordPerfect. Whilst WordPerfect didn't run flawlessly, I got it to work well enough to edit and save documents I work on at home. In four months none of the updates to Wine changed anything in how WordPerfect worked. Then a few weeks ago I upgraded Kubuntu to Gutsy by reinstalling everything from scratch, I also inmstalled Wine off the disk which was wine version 0.9.46. What a difference that made! The improvements to how WordPerfect worked was impressive. Now other software I use at the office also installed and worked nearly flawlessly (Timeslips 2005). Before (up to version 0.9.50 it would not install under Feisty). Strangely I passed through version 0.9.46 under Feisty without noticing any evidence of this impressive improvement. Then I added the wine repository to my weekly updates and upgraded Wine to 0.9.53. WordPerfect and Timeslips still work as before but now Wine has changed the screen resolution of Windows applications to 800 X 600 and it removed all the Wine menu items off the KDE menu, only the links to the software remains. Also the windows applications dialogue windows does not display everything that should be on them - for instance the OK/Cancel/Back buttons are invisible but they are there outside the box - if you can estimate where they are you can still click the unseen OK button. Now I want to uninstall all the M$ Windows software and do a fresh reinstall to see if that will resolve the problem, but with upgrade to 0,9,53 Wine also removed itself from the KDE menu, leaving only the links to the windows software. I have tried removing and reinstalling wine with adept and it had no effect. My questions are the following: 1. Must I re-install the windows software with every wine upgrade to get the benefit of wine improvements - or was the change due to something in Gutsy? 2. How do I get the wine options back onto the KDE menu? 3. How do I *completely* uninstall the windows software using the comand line? I don't want a trace of the windows software to remain so that I can do a clean re-install from time to time. 4. How do I change the screen resolution under wine back to something that's more functional? Thank you. -- Regards, Lex
On 27/01/2008, Lex Middelberg <lex at middelberg.co.za> wrote:> My questions are the following: > > 1. Must I re-install the windows software with every wine upgrade to get the > benefit of wine improvements - or was the change due to something in Gutsy?I don't know why the menu items were removed in the upgrade. Have you tried running the program directly (e.g. using winefile). If that works you could recreate the shortcut. I don't know how to do this, I'm afraid. To answer your question, it would depend on how well the installer worked for your application. The installer has been very good for a long time now, with the only outstanding issues being with InstallShield-based installers and those with custom actions (special code that is run during install). Therefore, if your program has installed and is working, it should survive an upgrade of Wine.> 2. How do I get the wine options back onto the KDE menu?You would need to create a program shortcut (running "wine <program>"), which I don't know how to do. As a workaround, you could create a shell script: #!/bin/sh wine <program> and save it to - for example - /usr/bin/wordperfect. You could then create the shortcut using KDE, which I don't know how to do.> 3. How do I *completely* uninstall the windows software using the comand line? > I don't want a trace of the windows software to remain so that I can do a > clean re-install from time to time.You can run: msiexec /x <Product.msi | ProductCode > if it is an MSI-based install. Otherwise, you need to look for the uninstall program (use winefile to look for it). Wine comes with an uninstaller program that lets you select the program(s) you want to uninstall. NOTE: Some Windows uninstallers don't completely remove everything. However, the easiest way to remove everything is to run: rm -rf ~/.wine wineprefixcreate This will reset everything back, with nothing installed and your Wine settings lost.> 4. How do I change the screen resolution under wine back to something that's > more functional?Use winecfg. In one of the tabs (can't remember where) there is an option for the default desktop resolution to use. There are also other useful configuration settings there. HTH, - Reece
On Sunday January 27 2008 07:01:38 Lex Middelberg wrote:> 1. Must I re-install the windows software with every wine upgrade to get > the benefit of wine improvements - or was the change due to something in > Gutsy?No, but *sometimes* you need if your WINE configuration (registry, for example) is broken for some reason. Also you can use new WINE prefix for new software and keep old one as is (if it works good enough for you) or try to install you software in fresh WINE prefix to see if it works better if installed from scratch or not (without touching your main WINE prefix(es) ). To do this, you can: rm -rf ~/.wine-test WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-test wineprefixcreate WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-test wine setup.exe cd ~/.wine-test/drive_c/Program\ Files/your_program/ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-test wine your_program.exe Where "setup.exe" is the setup executable for your application, "Program Files/your_program/" is the installation directory and "your_program.exe" - its main executable. * * * Also, after upgrade it is usually good idea to update your existing WINE prefix. To do this, you need to run: wineprefixcreate This will update your existing WINE prefix directory (~/.wine by default).> 2. How do I get the wine options back onto the KDE menu?I do use KDE but do not use KDE menu to launch Windows software or anything esle related to WINE so I don't know, sorry. But at least you can edit/create menu items by hand. Maybe someone else suggest better approach.> 3. How do I *completely* uninstall the windows software using the comand > line? I don't want a trace of the windows software to remain so that I can > do a clean re-install from time to time.If you want to reinstall from scratch you need to run: rm -rf ~/.wine Or: mv ~/.wine{,.backup} Where "~/.wine" is WINE prefix you want to (re)move and reinstall everything in it from scratch. After (re)moving it you need to run: wineprefixcreate ...to recreate it.> 4. How do I change the screen resolution under wine back to something > that's more functional?What do you mean by "change the screen resolution under wine"? Such changes can be made only by Windows software you run. If you are asking how to change your resolution with command line back to normal after WINE crash or something like that, you can use this command: xrandr -s 0 This will switch your display to default resolution. If you are asking how to change resolution of your WINE virtual desktop, run: winecfg Switch to "Graphics" tab and change desktop resolution as you want (if you don't use virtual desktop, this will not have any effect). Thank you for using WINE.
don.esslemont at paradise.net.nz
2008-Jan-27 08:50 UTC
[Wine] Wine Install and Uninstall Problems
On 27 Jan 2008 at 9:01, Lex Middelberg wrote:> I have been running Wine under Kubuntu Feisty for about the last four > months, keeping it updated with the latest wine releases on a weekly > basis, I use it to run WordPerfect ...Which version of Wordperfect are you using? I've been trying to get version 9 (Office 2000) to install under wine 0.9.53 and Ubuntu 5.06, and not having much luck. Regards, Don -- Don Esslemont Palmerston North New Zealand _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML email, vCards, & top-posting / \ www.asciiribbon.org
On Monday January 28 2008 08:09:04 Lex Middelberg wrote:> On Sunday 27 January 2008 09:44:12 you wrote: > > > 4.????How do I change the screen resolution under wine back to > > > something that's more functional? > > > > ????????What do you mean by "change the screen resolution under wine"? > > Such changes can be made only by Windows software you run. > > Thank you, the assistance was most helpful - I'll remove and reinstall and > revert on the list if needed. > > The rendering of dialogue boxes issue remains though - see my response to > another message on the list. It has nothing to do with the screen settings > in winecfg or in kde. If you permit, I will email you a screenshot so you > can see what I try to say.Yes, feel free to e-mail me the screenshot. But don't forget to describe exact steps to reproduce problem on the screenshot, and mention is this global problem for all (or most) Windows programs or not.