Wine Doesn't Open With GUI

LinuxFanster101

Hello everyone, I have this problem that has been bugging me all day. I am using Wine and it wont start up. You see the progress of the cursor loading Wine, but after a couple of minutes everything goes back to normal and nothing happens. I tried reinstalling it but no luck. The only time when it opens is when I use Terminal. Is there something wrong?

My computer specs... Gateway SX2800-01R | Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q8200 | 4 GB DDR3 (RAM) | 640 GB (MEMORY) | Intel GMA X4500 Integrated

mfillpot

Can you please tell us what distibution your are using and what command and/or menu entry you are trying to launch that won't start wine?

Generally to start the installation and configuration of an application in wine you use the wincfg command which launches a GUI for setup. After that you can open an installed program by running "wine {path to executable}" or in most cases wine makes menu entries for the installed programs on your desktop.

LinuxFanster101

I am using Fedora Core 11 64bit. The command that I got to use is

wine (path to exe)

Then it installs but I always have to use Terminal to use Wine. Do I have to do anything in the wineconfig?

mfillpot

wine only includes the 32-bit libraries, it will only work if it is on a multi-lib system, which I do not know if fedora is true 64-bit or multi-lib.

The winecfg command opens a pretty self explanatory gui that allows you to setup per application of global setting for applications and you must use it to install the applications.

LinuxFanster101

Does that mean I can't use Wine with GUI interface? I mean, my brother has Fedora Core 11 64bit and runs Wine perfectly. I wish I could ask but we don't get along very well.

mfillpot

The extent of my wine use with a GUI is when I ran winecfg, have you run that command yet?

My understanding from my limit use of it is that the configuration portion uses a GUI, but the applications themselves create their own windows so it should require no additional user interface from wine.

LinuxFanster101

mfillpot wrote:

The extent of my wine use with a GUI is when I ran winecfg, have you run that command yet?

My understanding from my limit use of it is that the configuration portion uses a GUI, but the applications themselves create their own windows so it should require no additional user interface from wine.

No, I haven't used Wineconfig yet. How do I run it?

mfillpot

Open up a terminal and type winecfg. That will bring up the configuration GUI.

Winehq also has a good manual that will give you information about the settings http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/config-wine-main#USING-WINECFG.

LinuxFanster101

mfillpot wrote:

Open up a terminal and type winecfg. That will bring up the configuration GUI.

Winehq also has a good manual that will give you information about the settings http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/config-wine-main#USING-WINECFG.

THANK YOU!!! IT'S FIXED!!! :laugh:

mfillpot

I was hoping it was something simple, I am glad to help.