wine users - Apr 2011 - Multiple Office 2007 Pro PowerPoint Windows Lock Up Laptop

Hello,

I'm using MS Office 2007 Pro on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 through wine-1.3.17.  After
a while my laptop will just freeze (like someone took a screenshot) when I have
multiple PowerPoint windows open.  This problem seems to be only associated with
PowerPoint and not the other Office Apps.  Also, whenever I minimize the
PowerPoint windows they will group together on my taskbar but little gray square
boxes appear on the top left hand side of my screen.  It takes a bit of clicking
around to get a different PowerPoint window to maximize after it has minimized
as well.  Any help is always greatly appreciated.

hayhursm wrote:
> 
> I'm using MS Office 2007 Pro on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 through wine-1.3.17. 
After a while my laptop will just freeze (like someone took a screenshot) when I
have multiple PowerPoint windows open.  This problem seems to be only associated
with PowerPoint and not the other Office Apps.  Also, whenever I minimize the
PowerPoint windows they will group together on my taskbar but little gray square
boxes appear on the top left hand side of my screen.  It takes a bit of clicking
around to get a different PowerPoint window to maximize after it has minimized
as well.  Any help is always greatly appreciated.
The problem with the "square boxes" and minimizing/maximizing is a
known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108

Your laptop freezing is Wine exposing some other problem with your system, most
likely a buggy graphics driver.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7f5c96516e61609acb0b2de9c0e6e97eadaff31a

John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, hayhursm <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > dimesio wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > hayhursm wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm using MS Office 2007 Pro on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 through
wine-1.3.17. ?After a while my laptop will just freeze (like someone took a
screenshot) when I have multiple PowerPoint windows open. ?This problem seems to
be only associated with PowerPoint and not the other Office Apps. ?Also,
whenever I minimize the PowerPoint windows they will group together on my
taskbar but little gray square boxes appear on the top left hand side of my
screen. ?It takes a bit of clicking around to get a different PowerPoint window
to maximize after it has minimized as well. ?Any help is always greatly
appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The problem with the "square boxes" and
minimizing/maximizing is a known bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108
> > > 
> > > Your laptop freezing is Wine exposing some other problem with
your system, most likely a buggy graphics driver.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7f5c96516e61609acb0b2de9c0e6e97eadaff31a
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for the quick reply and info! ?Hopefully these issues will
be resolved in the next stable release perhaps?
> > 
> > 
> 
> The reply to this message was the problem has nothing at all to do
> with wine. So no it will not be resolved in any future version of
> wine.  You need to figure out if the problem is faulty hardware or
> your OS has a buggy video driver or some other driver.
> 
> John


Sorry, let me re-phrase...do you think
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108 will be fixed in the next stable
release?  That appears to be a wine problem and not related to my graphics
driver.

> Sorry, let me re-phrase...do you think
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108 will be fixed in the next stable
release? ?That appears to be a wine problem and not related to my graphics
driver.
>
Oh sorry. I thought you were talking about the crashing which is out
of control of wine. I do not know the plans of the developers so I am
not sure when a bug fix will be made.

John

John Drescher wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, let me re-phrase...do you think
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108 will be fixed in the next stable
release? ?That appears to be a wine problem and not related to my graphics
driver.
> > 
> > 
> Oh sorry. I thought you were talking about the crashing which is out
> of control of wine. I do not know the plans of the developers so I am
> not sure when a bug fix will be made.
> 
> John

That's ok... thank you and everyone else for the valuable input.  I wish I
was more talented so I could contribute to this great project!