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I have installed Wine and a couple of Windows packages, but the Wine desktop in my Ubuntu OS only shows the upper left hand 1/4 of the screen. Clicking on the maximize leaves the 1/4 page showing but the rest of the screen is a black border. Any suggestions as to why this is happening? I have tried it with several windows packages and all of them do the same. Bob [Question]

I have RTFM but it is limited on offering help when a problem crops up for a noob who is not a programmer. I DL and installed the WINE program on my Ubuntu 7.10 and can see it on the Applications. Selecting 'Configure Wine' brings up the 'grey' screen but nothing I do to it seems to function. I opened the terminal and typed 'winecfg' and stuff happens like: 'bob at

Has anyone had any positive experience in installing the Legacy 6.0 genealogy program? The only instances I have found appear to be quite negative - to which I can attest; however, I would like to run Legacy 6.0 thru Wine in my Ubuntu OS if at all possible as opposed to using GRAMPS (a great program, but uploading a GEDCOM from Legacy 6.0 from Windoze Legacy has not been without major issues).

I installed the most current version of Wine and then installed Legacy 7.0 onto my Ubuntu 8.04. the installation seemed to 'take'. Unfortunately when I activate Legacy, all I get is a view 1/4 of the screen - not a full screen, just the upper left had corner which shows a partial Legacy screen. I did not get any 'runtime' errors - just the partial screen and the program will not