Fedora 10 & Wine

Ringiho

Ringiho

Ringiho

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Hello!

I currently have 2 machines running Fedora 10. One is a P4 3.4Ghz with 2GB RAM, the other is a P4 2.8Ghz with 1GB RAM.

They are both used for LastFM and some web browsing currently. I would really like to get Spotify running on them in Wine but when Wine is started, VNC kicks me off and X Server dies (I believe). The machines can be accessed through SSH and a quick fiddle with settings and a reboot gets them running again.

Anyone got any ideas how I can sort this out?

Cheers
 
What happens if you do this locally from the console? Also - have you got any other apps installed in wine that might be autostartingg and killing your session?
 
I can't really throw a monitor on these machines as they are hidden away on top of cupboards. Will see if I can try it.

I just did 'yum install wine'. Then if I run winecfg it kills the session. It also dies if I try to run the installer (.exe).
 
Ringiho said:
I can't really throw a monitor on these machines as they are hidden away on top of cupboards. Will see if I can try it.

I just did 'yum install wine'. Then if I run winecfg it kills the session. It also dies if I try to run the installer (.exe).
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Try
Code: 
$ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.old
$ winecfg
and see what happens.
 
haha, irony, I was just dealing with spotify issues today with compiz - wine app windows keep getting 'lost' - my solution is to package them up inside a nested Xserver thats slightly less fancy. You'll need to have Xephyr and a nice simple window manager installed - I'm using twm. Heres my dirty script for launching it:

Code: 
#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=:0 /usr/local/bin/Xephyr -ac -screen 1024x768 -br -reset -terminate :2 2> /dev/null &
sleep 2
DISPLAY=:2 /usr/local/bin/twm >/dev/null 2>&1 &
DISPLAY=:2 /usr/local/bin/wine "c:/Program Files/Spotify/spotify.exe" >/dev/null 2>&1

You'll need to adjust DISPLAY as appropriate, it assumes you want the Xephyr window to appear on :0, that you want the Xephyr instance to be :2, and nothing else is using :2.
You'll probably also want to adjust the paths, they probably aren't right for a linux distro (I use freebsd).
 
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