On November 18, 2002 10:23 am, Fredrick P. Lackey wrote: > Gentlemen, > > First of all, thanks to everyone with your input so far. I've now been > able to get IE v6.0 up and running as well as a few other less important > applications. Which brings me to a few more questions. > > 1. Since it is possible to use native DLLs with applications, can one > assume that on a dual boot machine with Win98 SE2 and Red Hat v8.0 that > it would only be necessary to install the desired application under > Windows, then add native DLLs to the Wine config file to get [almost] > *any* Windows application to function?
How wonderful it would be if it were true! :) I think it's fair to say you can run _more_ apps if you make use of _some_ native dlls, but running *any* app is way too optimistic ATM. > 2. Each time I launch a program, a black window appears that seems to > make up the "shell" (for lack of a better term) for that instance of the > application. This window is always somewhere around 800x600 pixels. Is > there any way to not show this window and/or get the size to be > something else? I am running in 1600x1200 resolution and only using > half of the screen is frustrating. This must be the stupid desktop option. Make sure you have "Managed" = "Y" in the [x11drv] section in ~/.wine/config > 3. Is there an easy way within Linux/Wine to determine what native DLLs > the application should/could use? It can be set, on a per app basis, in the [DllOverrides] section of the above mentioned file. -- Dimi.