... I always keep the last good version of Wine. I download the package and then install it. Of course, I use Slackware 99% of the time. I am sure there is a...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 12, 2008 4:23 pm
Yes, on Ubuntu (I believe that's what you said you had), go to System --> Administration --> Synaptic package Manager. Then, go down to Wine. Then, in the menu...
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lm_hamilton
Mar 12, 2008 4:39 pm
Lee, That's good to know. I still suggest uninstalling to make sure all the loose ends are tidied up. Larry ... System --> Administration --> Synaptic package...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 12, 2008 4:47 pm
... That seemed to work. I did a complete removal, a restart (I had strange errors when I reinstalled and ran wineprefixcreate w/o the restart), then ran...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 12, 2008 4:48 pm
Yes, sorry, I meant that it should be uninstalled first. Lee...
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sisterscape
Mar 12, 2008 5:35 pm
Thanks for all the useful info. 0.9.56 was not available under the "Force" option so I'd have to remember how to do it from my saved copy via CLI. I...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Mar 12, 2008 5:56 pm
The way *nix directory structure works, it you put the root partition on one drive and the home partition on another drive, you can install/re-install various ...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 12, 2008 6:15 pm
Unfortunately, it doesn't go back one version. I think the previous version it uses now is 0.9.4, which worked fine for me. Lee...
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Gerard Huijing
bibh_yah
Mar 12, 2008 9:37 pm
... The ellips character is, typographically speaking, one character consisting of three dots. It is not typeset as three separate dots. If it's done properly,...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 14, 2008 12:05 am
... Yes, that's true, but it also happens with several other characters, e.g., commas, apostrophes, line feeds, carriage returns etc. Lee...
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sisterscape
Mar 14, 2008 4:16 pm
NoteTab worked OK with 0.9.4 but Photoshop did not. I had the .deb for 0.9.55, copied it to my desktop and double clicked to install. I *may* try to...
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lm_hamilton
Mar 15, 2008 3:22 am
I got to thinking about your description of "empty frames". I was wondering is you have changed the default settings in winecfg on the Graphics tab. I have the...
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sisterscape
Mar 15, 2008 3:47 am
I appreciate your thoughts. I haven't opened winecfg in a long time. Just running everything on the default settings - Win 2000. The graphics settings are as...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 20, 2008 2:55 pm
Once again I had to downgrade to Wine v.0.9.46 as I was having problems again with the newest version. It kept crashing, I'd be doing something (different each...
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sisterscape
Mar 20, 2008 11:12 pm
Monday, I finally upgraded to Gutsy. It went pretty smoothly - only had to run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" to sort out screen resolution. I'm...
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lm_hamilton
Mar 22, 2008 3:33 am
Wine 0.9.58 was released today. It is not yet available as a Slackware package, so I cannot test it. There are a lot of Richedit fixes. This will affect...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 24, 2008 3:56 am
Now, I can't get the clipbar at the top to work .... errrh! Lee...
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sisterscape
Mar 25, 2008 2:33 pm
Since I am still having the 'empty frame' issue with wine, I've been doing a little research and ran across Dan's winetricks script. Have any of you ever...
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lm_hamilton
Mar 26, 2008 2:48 am
I have not tried this. A few years ago, I tried some of the other scripts that work similarly, but as NoteTab is the one Windows program I really want on...
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sisterscape
Mar 26, 2008 5:44 pm
I thought it was interesting that some riched dlls are included and was wondering if it was the same or different from your suggestion of replacing the native...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Mar 26, 2008 7:23 pm
The dlls in this script is the same as manually replacing them. I looked over what this script does, and it just automates items that can be done manually. ...
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sisterscape
Mar 26, 2008 9:04 pm
Thanks for the clarification. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? ...
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lm_hamilton
Mar 28, 2008 2:51 am
The Slackware package or Wine 0.9.58 finally came out. It did not fix the display issues I have at the bottom of outlines. Text (txt) files are still ok. Oh,...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 28, 2008 1:10 pm
Ever since I downgraded to 0.9.4 I can't run clips. I have had to use NTP in VirtualBox, it's the only way I can use it now. Well, hopefully one day ... Lee...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Mar 28, 2008 4:32 pm
Just found out I can run clips in 0.9.4 but I had to reload the .clb and .ctb files from Windows. Strange ... The upgrade just spits out too much garbage at...
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sisterscape
Mar 28, 2008 5:31 pm
I just added 5 new posts to a web page and the end-of-line garbage only happened once. The 'empty frame' thing still happens but not as often. Since I'm not...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Mar 29, 2008 4:15 am
I think a clean install will be a big help. Hardware is not my strong suit. I have not yet built my own system from scratch. Someday.... Larry ... ...
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sisterscape
Apr 13, 2008 9:34 pm
Howdy all . . . Lot's of news here. Put together a new box last week. Here are the specs: Antec NSK4480 Black Mid Tower Case Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Socket 775...
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lm_hamilton
Apr 14, 2008 12:33 pm
Sorry, I had not checked WineHQ.org in about two weeks. I see the the Slackware package is available, which it had not been as of a couple days ago. I do not...
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eric_fookes
Apr 14, 2008 2:06 pm
Hi Sister, I suspect these issues affect any application that was compiled with Borland Delphi. I very much doubt that NoteTab is the only application...
