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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: WINE?   
   Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:31:40 +0000 (UTC)   
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   On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:41:28 +0100, Mike Dee wrote:   
      
   > Joe LaVigne  wrote in   
   > news:equgbo$1c4$1@news.datemas.de:    
   >    
   >> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:52:28 +0100, Mike Dee wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> Joe LaVigne  wrote:    
   >>>    
   >>>> I am trying to use Wine on my Ubuntu 6.10 system.  Installed it   
   >>>> (sudo apt-get install wine), and it installed fine, but it did   
   >>>> not install any menu items in gnome for the configuration.   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>> What am I missing here?   
   >>>    
   >>> It uses winecfg now. Type winecfg into a terminal   
   >>    
   >> Fantastic.  Created a gnome launcher for it...   
   >    
   > Good idea, think I'll do the same.   
   >     
   >> Plenty of errors starting up, but I was able to track them all   
   >> down and crush them...   ;-)   
   >    
   > Lucky you, it's mostly hit and miss for me. I feel lucky if I manage to    
   > install a Win program that actually runs without much trouble.   
      
   Have not installed much, just played around with a couple of the apps on   
   my Windows partition...   
      
   >    
   > Happy to say that for me, Xnews is one such proggie :)   
      
   I love Pan, hell, it is part of the reason I was able to convince myself a   
   while back to switch to Linux...   
      
   >    
   > Don't know if you've noticed with Wine, if you have a Windows .exe (an    
   > installer program is a good example), right clicking it pops up a menu    
   > asking if you want to run it in Wine. That's a nice feature.   
   >   
      
   My system was not doing that.  So, I right-clicked on an app, told it to   
   open with a different program, entered wine in the custom box, and now it   
   is perfect...   ;-)   
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