[Wine] Re: Agent 3.3 on Linux?

quincy
Mon, 01 May 2006 17:50:03 -0000

On Mon, 01 May 2006 12:43:31 -0400, Gwen Morse
<goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:46:54 -0700, Dan Epstein <dseps@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I dual boot WinXP and Fedora Linux and would like to run Agent 3.3 when
>>I boot to Fedora.  Has anyone successfully installed WINE (codeweavers?)
>>on Linux and gotten the current Agent to function?  What has your
>>experience been?  What problems have you encountered?
>
>I've been using Crossover Office (the commerical Codeweavers) package
>since Redhat 9. I'm now up to Fedora Core 5. Agent works great under
>it. Earlier versions had some slight visual oddness/warping in the
>buttons, but, it's been looking "as good as under Windows"
since Core
>3 or so. It also runs just as smoothly as it looks.
>
>Install Agent using the "install unsupported software" options of
>Crossover Office. Make sure when doing the install to select the
>option that created icons/shortcuts. Then, look in your Fedora menu,
>Agent should show up in a folder named something like "Windows
>Applications".
>
>You can share an Agent data file with a windows install (if you
>dual-boot) by making sure the windows drive is +rw (I store my Windows
>Agent install on fat32 for just that reason). Remove the default
>'Data' directory that installs for Agent in Fedora. Make a symbolic
>link to the Windows Data directory, and it will share the folders. I
>haven't noticed any problems or corruption when doing this.
>
>My only issue is that I can't configure Agent (on Linux) to find my
>.sig files. I've installed Agent on the "D:" drive in Windows,
and
>Agent insists on being installed in the virtual "C:" drive on
Linux.
>So the location of my .sig files doesn't match in the config file.
>
>It's a small price to pay to _have_ a working Agent :).
>
>Gwen

I've installed Agent under both wine and openoffice. It seems to work
just fine. I am trying to figure out one thing though:

How can I launch attached files like pics or mp3s from within agent
while running inside openoffice or wine? I'd like agent to use one of
my linix apps to open pics, for example, (I like gwenview), but I
can't seem to make that work.

 In Windows, I'm used to double-clicking on attachments within Agent
and having them open.

If I can get this functionality in agent under wine or crossover,
it'll be good riddance Bill gates :)

Any help would be appreciated.