I am trying to make my application run on wine first of all I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and wine 1.2, I did an override to native gdiplus.dll in order to let the graphical compontents of my app run "properly". I also installed odbc client using this procedure http://wiki.winehq.org/NativeOdbc in order to use the mssql database. I tried to run this with or without compiz, and result is the same. >From a preliminary test I see that the main problem is the ribbon toolbar, I found the following problems: - the Ribbon Menu (the one used in RibbonNotePad demo) doesn't work - the subitems doesn't work - ribbon drop downs in general doesn't work - ribbon hints doesn't work In the attched screenshots you can see what in Windows works ok and not on Wine. I put 4 screenshots called Win1, Win2, Win3, Win4 that show the correct behaviour of RibbonNotePadDemo in Windows 7, and I put a screenshot of clicking on Application Menu in Wine/Linux. download zip from here: http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/GetSCAttachment.ashx?id=bd561e0e-b510-4932-9d2b-f2eef0aec5b8 I attach here also a test .exe that has only the functions that are misbehaving (in order to let you test just what is the problem) http://nordestsystems.com/transfer/RibbonNotepadDemo.exe I've also asked to the developer of the component about this issue.. http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/p/Q297131.aspx but I got no answer. Since more or less all of what I need inside the software works, I just need to solve this graphical issue. any help is appreciated. thanks Lorenzo