Wine configuration

[theYinYeti]

I decided I would try Wine again (I haven't done so for 3 years at least). I installed current "community" version (2005le I guess).

Unfortunately, whenever a win32 window appears, Wine chooses an unreadable symbols font (no parking, aircraft, no smoking...)!

 

I ran find / *.ttf or *.afm, from which I got the sorted list of directories with fonts. I changed my config file accordingly, but the config file seems to be completely ignored! In fact, the drives mapped into this config file are ignored too, and I couldn't even run wine until I created a link for each Wine drive in ~/.wine/dosdevices (thanks Google, nothing in the doc about that...)

 

An idea? You can see below the screenshot...

 

 

and here is the config file (without most comments):

WINE REGISTRY Version 2

[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/local/.sys/win32/wine_c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "/local/.sys/win32/wine_c"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/hdc"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/mnt/dvd"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "/mnt/dvd"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/hdd"

[Drive H]
"Path" = "%HOME%"
"Type" = "network"
"Device" = ""
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive T]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Device" = ""
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive Z]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\Windows"
"System" = "C:\\Windows\\System"
"Temp" = "T:\\"
"Path" = "C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System;T:\\;T:\\test;H:\\"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"

# [wineconf]

[Version]
"Windows" = "win98"

[DllOverrides]
"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
"ole32" = "builtin, native"
"commdlg" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"shell" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"shdocvw" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"msi" = "native, builtin"
"*" = "builtin, native"

[x11drv]
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
"Managed" = "Y"
"UseDGA" = "Y"
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
"UseXRandR" = "Y"
"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
"DXGrab" = "N"
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
"Desktop" = "N"

[fonts]

[FontDirs]
"dir1" = "/usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype"
"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/otf/mdk"
"dir3" = "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
"dir5" = "/usr/share/fonts/wine"
"dir6" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
"dir7" = "/local/.sys/linux/opt.real/ttfonts"

[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"

[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"

[ppdev]

[spooler]
"FILE:" = "|gtklp"
"LPT1:" = "win32.ps"
"LPT2:" = "|gv -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp0"

[ports]

[Debug]

[registry]
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

[Tweak.Layout]
"WineLook" = "Win98"

[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"

[afmdirs]
"1" = "/usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/fontmetric"
"2" = "/usr/share/enscript/afm"
"3" = "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe"
"4" = "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript"
"5" = "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
"6" = "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/adobestd35"
"7" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

[WinMM]

"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"    ; default for most common configurations
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[dsound]

[Network]

#########################################
# Application dependent sections follow #
#########################################

[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
"Managed" = "N"
"Desktop" = "N"

[AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "800x600"

[AppDefaults\\explorer.exe\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "800x600"

[AppDefaults\\notes.exe\\DllOverrides]
"msvcrt" = "native"
"msvcrt40" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"imagehlp" = "native"
"rnaph" = "native"

[AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\DllOverrides]
"msvcrt" = "native"
"msvcrt40" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"imagehlp" = "native"
"rnaph" = "native"

[AppDefaults\\nhldaemn.exe\\DllOverrides]
"msvcrt" = "native"
"msvcrt40" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"imagehlp" = "native"
"rnaph" = "native"

# [/wineconf]

 

Yves.

 

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[Havin_it]

Yves, your surmise is correct. From my ~/.wine/config

 

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; Powered by Sidenet
;; http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/
;; Version 1.8.3
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;; WARNING
;; This file is ignored in wine >= 200506*

;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a
;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'

 

(Note: I setup WINE with the Sidenet config utility. The address above is its homepage, and look in http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/files/ for the latest tarball)

 

I'm not too sure how font-setting works in WINE, but if you hunt through the registry you should find a number of keys showing a list of available fonts.

 

Have you installed IE6? This installs (optionally) a set of 'IE core fonts' - maybe it is the lack of them that's causing the problem? (It is always a good idea to install IE whether you will use it directly or not, because so many other apps depend on it.)

 

Finally, I wonder if it might be a locale problem rather than a font problem? It's curious that the titlebar of your window is unaffected by this, perhaps that's the reason?

[theYinYeti]

Thanks for the answer.

I even tried an older version (from MdK 10.1 CDs), that still relied on .wine/config, yet the problem is exactly the same!

 

The only difference I see with the days when it worked (apart from newer software everywhere), is that now I install Mdk/v with UTF-8 as the default encoding, though the locale still stays FR. In the "old" days, the encoding was ISO-8859-1(5). Could this be the problem with Windows texts? If so, what could be the solution?

 

Yves.

 

(Note: it is normal that the title bar is OK: it is a managed window, hence the title is "drawn" by X, not Wine)