[SOLVED] Small Wine window...

[ProximaCentauri]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make work a game named "Orbiter", it's a simulator. But when I try to launch it, a very very small window of Wine appear, without the little cross to maximise etc..

I installed Wine32 and Wine64 and other packages, but it doesn't work... I can't maximise it, even if I change the resolution of Wine.

There's an example from french mageia forum : http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum ... -s2-6e.php

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Let's say it depends. Usually you would want to use winecfg and emulate a virtual screen. But by default this is controlled how the application itself defines it's window size.
I prefer to have one virtual desktop the size of my screen resolution, so you can run windows games in fullscreen and can use Alt+Tab to switch back to your linux desktop at any time.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-dba86ae ... af45e8119c for that.

You should also have a look at the wine AppDB entries for Orbiter, usually they provide fixes for known issues and also some hints what is working and what not:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=2269
Have you installed Visual C++ 2005 runtime under wine yet, using winetricks or an installer bundled with Orbiter maybe?

[benmc]

is the very small window, a vertical rectangle?

If so, you may need to remove wine_64 package.

[ProximaCentauri]

Thanks for answering

Yes, it's that one, but I can't remove Wine64 without removing Wine32, the package installer of Mageia ask to remove wine32 if I want to delete Wine64 and vice versa...

EDIT : Not vice versa actually, I can remove wine32 and let wine64 installed, but I can't remove wine64 without removing wine32

[benmc]

bother.
you may have to remove wine completely and reinstall just the 32 version.
64 is only required if running 64 bit programmes, not if using a 64 system.
counter-intuitive- you have a 64 system and run a 32 on it.
sorry for the bad news

[ProximaCentauri]

I'm using a 64bits version of Mageia, and I have a amd64 computer.

I removed all wine packages and when I want to install Wine32 only, Mageia install Wine64 because of dependencies...

[benmc]

currently I have Wine 1.6.1-2.mga4 (i586) installed
not sure why your installer is requesting a 64 package.

can you check to see if any 64 packages for wine remained after you removed wine?
only one 64 package- lib64kwineffects1 [ which isnt a Wine package ] installed, come up in my search.

[ProximaCentauri]

If I remove all wine packages, even lib64kwineffects1, it ask me to install wine64 if I want to install wine32 only, and vice versa (again).

I don't know what the problem is, I'm new to Mageia (since february)

[ProximaCentauri]

Wait, what !?

I'm on another problem in the same time with Wine, and I just installed "icodecs" with winetricks to make an astronomy image processing to work (because it was saying "Decompressor not found when I tried to make a conversion video) and it work perfectly.

Back to Orbiter, now I can run Orbiter without this tiny windows, the window is "normal" and everything work fine... Wtf ?

Thank you very much for your help, I know it's just a forum, but it's very nice to help each other

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks

[ProximaCentauri]

My bad Benmc, you were completely right.

I was focusing on "Wine32" and "Wine64", but I didn't see the Wine i386 package, and it was that one, so now I don't have Wine64 anymore

Eveything works fine, thank you guys, I really appreciate