Hey guys, I tell you what is worth playing with, virtualbox for linux, its free and its does this awesome thing called "seamless mode" - say if you fired up your Virtual Machine logged into it and then ran internet explorer, you press the hotkey (which is user-defined)+L I think, and the VM disappears, and it looks like IE is running in Gnome*! Its not of course but it works great, you can maximize it, minimize it, move it around just like any other window - and it looks really awesome. Oh and because its a VM not a wine sublayer, you do get the Windows XP windows decorations, not the metacity one for the windows app that is running in seamless mode
Its great if you want a windows app running that you cant get working in wine, and you want to be able to seamlesly use that app just like Wine allows you to so that you can have other Gnome* apps open at the same time. Virtual box is essentially an open source version of VMware so the virtual machine has to be installed from a windows installation disk - therefore thats why the app you're having trouble with runs much more stable on VirtualBox than on wine - albeit because you've moved over the to the darkside again lol - oh yes and licensing etc etc....Which is why I always suggest wine as a first "port" of call. *Gnome can be swapped with KDE as appropriate - I use Gnome thats why I said it. Check out some of the screenshots http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots I'm really impressed with it (if you couldn't tell - lol) -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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