I've installed wine version 1.1.37 on Slackware 13.0 32-bit using pkginstall. Internet explorer loads via wine: example cd /home/tim/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer wine iexplore.exe
* Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> [100201 17:07]:> I've installed wine version 1.1.37 on Slackware 13.0 32-bit > using pkginstall. > > Internet explorer loads via wine: > example > cd /home/tim/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer > wine iexplore.exe > From the konsole command line. > > IE starts up right away, but there is no toolbar or menu. > > Please advise. > thanksShould have added: 1)Same issue if I start up IE from a file manager 2)And possibly I need to provided some registration info? I have run winecfg and so far, have not found a way to put in any registration info. tj -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com
Tim Johnson wrote:> > IE starts up right away, but there is no toolbar or menu. >That's normal. Wine's IE doesn't have a toolbar or menu. It's not really meant for browsing, it's meant to provide html rendering for apps that need it. If you need a full browser, install Firefox in Wine.
Tim Johnson wrote:> > Say what! You're saying IE is not meant for browsing! > Obviously you are not a web programmer. Every web programmer needs > to be testing on *both* IE and firefox. On my previous OS, I ran > IE out of Crossover with full toolbars and menus. > > I was therefore able to test both html rendering and javascript > performance. > > I don't mean to appear brusque here but that is not the answer I > was hoping for. > > Please don't tell me that you can't run IE out of wine with > full features... <please> >I said Wine's IE is not meant for browsing. Even if it was full-featured, it's based on the mozilla gecko engine, so it's not suitable for what you want anyway. Real IE6 and IE7 can be installed with winetricks. IE6 mostly sort of works, last time I tried IE7 it crashed on start. Crossover includes hacks to make some things work that don't work in plain Wine, so real IE might work better in it. But are you sure the browser you used under it was real IE, and not just wine-gecko with the missing features added? (I don't know, I don't use Crossover.)
I will say.. something with IE7 rendering wrong in Wine vs Crossover... If I install IE7 in Wine with Winetricks.. it mostly works with some problems.... I then can install IE7 in Crossover, where it works better, then take the system.reg file from the Crossover install, and throw it in the Wine install version, and it then works just fine, fixing most of the problems.... which leads me to believe its just registry setting issues....?