I'm new to the list and to Wine. I loaded wine wine-0.9.7-i486-S10.2 into Slackware 10.1 in order to run the Forte Agent newsreader. It was setup and running under Win4lin which I have discontinued. What would be the syntax to load Forte Agent and specify the old "start-in" directory used under Win4lin? wine ./agent something_for_start-in_directory ?? Does Wine have the concept of a Desktop with icons or is winefile what we must use? Thanks, Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux
Larry Alkoff wrote:> I'm new to the list and to Wine. > > I loaded wine wine-0.9.7-i486-S10.2 into Slackware 10.1 in order to run > the Forte Agent newsreader. It was setup and running under Win4lin > which I have discontinued. > > What would be the syntax to load Forte Agent and specify the old > "start-in" directory used under Win4lin? > > wine ./agent something_for_start-in_directory ?? > > Does Wine have the concept of a Desktop with icons or is winefile what > we must use? > > Thanks, Larry >I mostly figured this out. What I did is create a new link to application on the kde desktop which allows me to specify both the initial command line and start-up directory. When I specified the directory I was using under Win4lin, Agent loaded just fine with my settings intact. I've heard for years that Agent ran well in Wine and it's a very great pleasure to see just how well it does. There are only two small problems left - the fonts are very tiny which perhaps can be set in Agent itself and I'd like to somehow capture the Agent icon of a man in a red hat (not related to Red Hat) and a black pipe. Anyone know of a good way of extracting Windows program icons and using them in in a window manager like kde? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux
If you do the install under wine, it creates the links on your linux desktop with the correct icon. Otherwise you can create it with wineshelllink. --- Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com> a ?crit :> > Does Wine have the concept of a Desktop with icons or is winefile what > we must use? >Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Tired of a proprietary Windows on your computer ? Use free ReactOS instead ( http://www.reactos.org )
Hi, I'm gettin trouble with Gimp 2.2 on Wine (9.5; 9.7). Gimp don't work at all... and Wine return this output: (gimp-2.2.exe:8): Pango-WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10" (gimp-2.2.exe:8): Pango-WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10" (gimp-2.2.exe:8): Pango-WARNING **: All font failbacks failed!!!! How I can resolve this problem? Thanks... Antonio
Does this answer apply specifically to Forte Agent (as mentioned in the subject) or generally to all applications? I ask because Nothing has appeared on the desktop when I have installed Pegasus Mail under Wine nor do I have access to the program's icon which is embedded in the .exe file. Since reading this message I have tried out wineshelllink. The only problem I had with it was that for some reason it did not act on my --icon specification. I suppose it was a case of cockpit error. Sylvain Petreolle wrote at 14:31 on 14 Feb 2006:> If you do the install under wine, it creates the links on your linux desktop > with the correct icon. > Otherwise you can create it with wineshelllink. > > --- Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com> a ?crit : > > > > Does Wine have the concept of a Desktop with icons or is winefile what > > we must use? > >-- Jim