wine users - Jan 2009 - The fonts are all messed up unless I crank the dpi up a lot

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1520/screenshot10ul7.png

It's the same on all resolutions, even on high ones, but I'm legally
blind so I have to use 800x600 ~_~

Reinstalling Wine didn't help, completely removing it and reinstalling it
didn't do squat, installing some msfont thing didn't do anything either.

anyway, I'm a total noob at this linux thing, the only reason i installed it
was because on this old computer I don't play any games and it's more
secure and resource efficient than windows i guess so I decided to use this.

I'm not the kinda person who enjoys tinkering with computers, in fact, I
hate it big time despite the fact that i can find my way around winodws at least
better than most average users.

So guys, if you have suggestions on how I should go about fixing this,
you'll have to hold my hand through the whole process, i really hate
computers lol

Jack1337 wrote:
> http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1520/screenshot10ul7.png
> 
> It's the same on all resolutions, even on high ones, but I'm
legally blind so I have to use 800x600 ~_~
> 
> Reinstalling Wine didn't help, completely removing it and reinstalling
it didn't do squat, installing some msfont thing didn't do anything
either.
> 
> 
If you're using the legacy nVidia driver, that's a known bug. 
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146
There's a workaround mentioned in the bug report.

>dunno if it's Legacy or not, but it is an nVidia driver, ubuntu
installed it by itself.
>thanks dude, hope that helps.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
get registry file and save it to desktop

regedit 
Registry / Import file

Okay, but I wasn't sure if it would wipe all of them. Thanks for that bit of
info.

I also hope I got nothing else wrong...

austin987 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, DaVince <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > Okay, but I wasn't sure if it would wipe all of them. Thanks for
that bit of info.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean? Uninstallers in wine should work as well
> as they do in windows. That said, they often don't in wine, because
> 'rm -rf ~/.wine' is so easy, it's a low priority. Also, many
> uninstallers don't work fully on windows...
> 
> By all of them, if you mean will 'rm -rf ~./wine' remove all
windows
> applications? If so, sort of. It will remove all applications
> installed in that directory (aside from shortcuts). If you never
> messed with separate WINEPREFIXs, then yes, that'll remove them all.
> 
> -- 
> -Austin
My train of thought is kind of like this: because an app's configuration
files can be in so many places, the package's script that takes care of
"completely removing" could maybe forget a few places and keep the
config files there anyway. But this would be the same as with Windows anyway,
especially where registry keys for some apps simply aren't removed.

@Ben Okopnik: I did only mention the app's settings though, not files made
with it.