On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 17:54, nibbles.hax<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i just installed the newest version of wine on to the latest version of ubuntu and it opens but so does this window that i cant close or it closes the intire program and there is no desktop and no way for me to do anything please help me > wine will not give you a Windows desktop to work on. Start with the FAQ (relvant entries at least, such as 1.9, section 3 and 4 (section 7 might be useful as well)) http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo might be useful as well, but it does not seem to offer a good introduction of how Wine works, etc. (Is there a nice Getting Started guide somewhere, anyone?) Gert