On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 19:22, joelop<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying Ubuntu 9.04 these days and Wine to help me with some Win applications. 2-3 days ago I installed Ares and Wine worked perfectly. Since then I can't make it work anymore. When I download an .exe application Wine just 'shakes' my screen but does nothing more. I've even tried the 'Open with Wine' option and I get the same result. > > Any clue on what can be happening? > You should be able to fix wine by cleaning out your WINEPREFIX ($HOME/.wine by default), but you would need to install applications from scratch... Finding the problem is a better solution... http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 About the screen shaking thing: Is desktop effects disabled? It is known to cause issues with Wine. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-db2fa150a8b8f906508959b92beb00768ec6ec47 Gert
