jerlinux wrote: > I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to. > I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am > still doing something wrong. > > If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be > very grateful. > > I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that > the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work > although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way > to read the drop downs. > I think you must mean 1.1.7. You can check by typing wine --version in the terminal. There is definitely something wrong with your setup. Rename your ~/.wine to something else, then run winecfg from the terminal. A new ~/.wine will automatically be created. If the display appears normal for the fresh wineprefix, then something you installed in the old one borked the display settings.