I have been running Quicken 2009 for over a year successfully and the appDB shows Quicken 2011 works well. Because of Quicken's support policy, I am forced to upgrade to Quicken 2012. I have been unable to run it succesfully under Wine 1.3.37. Anyone have any tips? I have filed a bug just in case the issue is not purely local.
I have the same problem as you (being forced to upgrade to Quicken 2012). I was running Mint 12, and got stuck during installation when a dialog comes up that said something about my display resolution not being correct. But I could not do anything with the dialog, it was frozen. How I wanted to select the "never show this again" option on it. My only recourse was to kill the quicken install. I tried to change the resolution in the Wine configuration, but then the installation would just crash. I am thinking about going back to Ubuntu 10.4 and trying it again. But I have read that the Microsoft .NET Framework that comes with Wine may be the culprit.
I just found this and I will give it a try: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22198
following the steps in the appdb entry for Quicken 2011, the program at least loads instead of aborting. The initial startup wizard screen freezes as soon as you select anything that opens a file chooser (and in fact misbehaves and plasters itself on top of all windows in all workspaces.) Still fighting.
jjmckenzie wrote:> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM, tigerdog <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > After following the process in the entry for Quicken 2011, I was able to run the program by checking the "Emulate a > > virtual desktop" option in Wine-->Configure Wine. ?Not the ideal solution but it's at least working. :) > > > > If that fixed it, please update the Applications Database with this > information. Also, please create a bug report, if one does not exist, > to state this. > > Thank you. > > JamesWill update the entry, though I need to be more methodical and redo the install to find out exactly what of the flurry of things I tried had the effect of un-breaking it and which simply made it work better. It's still a troublesome app compared to 2009 or 2011 versions.
Further experimentation shows Quicken 2012 will run as long as graphics --> Allow the window manager to control the windows is unchecked. A virtual desktop is not required, however the application is better suited to running with "control the windows" and "virtual desktop" checked, since it allows the user to drag the app onto any desktop. May be an issue between Quicken and the window manager (tested with XFCE and E17, not gnome or kde).