Wine Crashes/Restarts Gnome


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i installed wine from the package manager and whenever i attempt to run it from the menu, the mouse lags up and then restarts gnome and i have to log in again

anyone know whats causing this?

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I don't know what is causing it. Never had anything like it happen. But maybe the thing to do would be to add the official wine repo to your software repository list. I do this and it keeps me more up to date on wine releases than Ubuntu's own repository.

A description of how to do this is here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

Worth a try at least :D

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Sorry!

I wonder though if it might not be the Windows program you are trying to run. I've had some Windows programs that wouldn't run but then they just didn't do anything. Most of them I tried do run. But maybe you hit on a particular program that does weird things.

Does wine lock up your system if you try different Windows programs? Did this problem not happen with Gutsy using the same Windows program?

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Did you open the configuration first, set it up, and then try to run wine?

Personally I've found that wine configures itself okay for most things, but this is a good suggestion. There are all sorts of things you can tweak there that may help things. The biggest thing I can think of is the setting for, say, the program that is causing problems. You can set it to run with any version of Windows, at least back to 3.0 I think. This may help, I agree. So, what is happening with your efforts?

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Personally, I've never had wine perform the errors that you have, but I remember reading on winehq.org that you should open the configuration first, set it up, and then start working with it.

I did a lot of research concerning wine, because I wanted to test WoW on Ubuntu for a long time now.

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the thing is, the configuration utility also crashed it, anything i tried to open after a fresh install like the notepad that comes with it

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