No input on this question? Anybody? On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 14:29 -0500, Butch Evans wrote: > This winbox application is one that I use to manage routers for myself > and my customers, so it is unlikely that there are many others trying to > use it. I have used this program (through several versions of the > program itself) on my Fedora laptop from FC8 all the way to Fedora 14. > I don't know what wine versions that spans, but it's over 5 years and it > has worked flawlessly. When I first tried to run that application on my > old laptop, I had some problems in the terminal portion of the > application (see pictures). After some reading, I discovered the MS > Core fonts needed to be installed. I installed (on my old laptop) the > msttcorefonts package and the winbox app has worked ever since with > absolutely no problems. My old laptop is currently running wine 1.3.12. > > First, some images showing the problem: > > This one shows how the app looks when it is working correctly: > http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxworking.png > > This one shows the problem: > http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem.png > > In the above image, you can see the terminal application window is > completely black other that SOME of the text in the window. Here's > another image: > http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem2.png > In this image, I caused a bit of text to be output to the terminal. You > can see that some of the text is obscured by the black. Here's the odd > part: > http://www.butchevans.com/images/winboxproblem3.png > > In this image, all I did was "highlight" the text in the terminal > window. All text is visible in this way. > > I have started winbox from the command line with WINDEBUG set and I see > (among other things) these types of errors: > warn:font:AddFontToList Unable to load font > "/home/butche/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts/vgaoem.fon"/(nil) err = > 1 > > (sorry for the line wrap). I also see errors that are "AddFontToList > Ignoring font" instead of "Unable to load". I see either "Unable to > load" OR "Ignoring font" errors for these fonts (not both for any one > font). I suspect that this is where my problem is coming from, as the > images shown above are very similar to the problem I had on my old > laptop prior to installing the msttcorefonts package. > > I installed the msttcorefonts package on my new laptop (where those > images come from). I have copied the fonts to > ~.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts, I have copied them > to /use/share/wine/fonts. I have have removed the .wine dir (to create > a new "virgin" wine bottle (or whatever it's called...sorry if that's > not the correct term). I see absolutely no change in the program. > > After discussing this issue with a couple of people at #winehq, I > downloaded a liveCD of Ubuntu, installed wine and msttcorefonts and ran > the winbox app there. In that environment, it ran perfectly. I know > this is not a limitation of my hardware, but a configuration error > somewhere. > > I am at a loss and really need to get this fixed. I am at a point where > I'd be willing to pay for some help, but if anyone has ideas, please let > me know where to begin. > -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * * NOTE MY NEW NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * ********************************************************************
