On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:49, rekuli <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks to both of you, but: > > concerning dx9: when I want networking to work in wine 1.0.1 from older applications/games, I need to install DX9 completely (already did that), using the replacements winetricks installs doesn't work for what I need. No bugs occur that I found, and the wine docu says that I can replace everything except the wine kernel itself --- so I did ;-) > Isn't this the issue? http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectPlayGames Which documentation? The docs outside the Wiki is horribly outdated and mostly just dangerous... > concerning Wine under !{KDE,GNOME}: > *has* to be a wine bug or at least a dependency on certain running stubs or processes, because if it wasn't, it would run under FVWM as it does under KDE/GNOME. Period. No further discussion about this. If anyone knows how to fix this issue, please let me know. > I'm able to run winecfg in a plain X session without a window manger... Not very useful though.... It also works with twm.... (Which I had to install first....) (running X with X command as root from shell... Running Wine as root from another shell with DISPLAY set... (And, Yes, running wine as root is not a good idea))
