wine users - Feb 2011 - QQ International -- Almost works, but always says I'm "Away"

I got QQ International (version 1.0) to work via WINE under Mepis 8.5. Using
winetricks, I installed all of the missing DLL's, and QQ now starts up and
runs fine.

... except for the fact that it always shows me as being "Away". Even
if I manually set my status to "Online", it changes me back to
"Away" after a second or two.

This only happens under WINE. I log in to the same version of QQ International
under the same QQ account on a WinXP box, and everything works fine, including
the Away/Online status indicator.

Has anyone else seen this QQ International behavior under WINE? If so, is there
a fix that you have come up with?

Thanks in advance.

PS: this does not occur when running the Linux version of QQ on the same machine
(without WINE, of course).

"HippoMan" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I got QQ International (version 1.0) to work via WINE under Mepis 8.5
> ... except for the fact that it always shows me as being "Away"
...
> Has anyone else seen this QQ International behavior under WINE?
> If so, is there a fix that you have come up with?
Check the AppDB -- that's what it's for.

But, as others have noted, you're probably better off using a Linux
version.  That goes for any program for which a native Linux version
is available.

The reason I am not using the Linux version of QQ is because it has fewer
features than the Windows version.

I want to run a decent version of QQ on my Linux box, and I'd like to avoid
having to run Windows within a VMWare emulator, if at all possible.

I'll check the AppDB again, in case I missed something there.

Thanks to all.