Windows programs on Linux, easily
Bug fix release
A few people experienced issues with the previous testing release and there were indeed a few show stopping issues, so let’s bring on the bug fix release!
Fixed in pre10:
python-wine:
- python-wine will now exit with a fitting message if Wine is not installed
- If the default prefix doesn’t exist on access it will be created
- Fixed: Setting registry values was broken in many cases due to a recent change
- Fixed: Setting virtual desktop values didn’t really work on the default prefix
- Fixed: Setting integer registry values (also fixes setting font aliasing)
- Fixed: Reading the name of unified format prefixes failed
- Fixed: Reading icons is less prone to fail
- Fixed: Reading program info from registry would sometimes use faulty uninstall info
vineyard-preferences:
- The virtual desktop widget didn’t work, it does now.
The PPA is updating right now and as usual the updates are available here as well:
python-wine pre10 and vineyard pre10
As always, remember to install both packages if you’re installing them manually (using the PPA should update both automatically).
| Print article | This entry was posted by Christian Dannie Storgaard on February 11, 2011 at 12:18 am, and is filed under News, Release. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |
about 13 years ago
hey.. any thoughts on when you’ll be adding natty to the ppa? I manually dl’d the packages and installed them, but ./vineyard-preferences just hangs .. too bad, I think vineyard is a great app (used it on another machine of mine that runs maverick.. no dice on natty, though)
about 13 years ago
There was a bug in PyGtk that kept Vineyard from running on Natty, but since I’ve worked around that now, the next version will also have a Natty release. Thanks for reminding me.
about 13 years ago
See if there is a way to make Direct2Drive games register properly.
There are many people who have D2D titles and cannot make the switch to Linux completely because of it.
about 13 years ago
I don’t have any experience with Direct2Drive, but I’m on their site now looking for their client – we’ll see how it goes
about 13 years ago
Well, seeing that they don’t have any free games for download and the cheapest is more than I want to give for something I wont play (and for a platform I don’t support), I don’t really have a way to test how it works.
Do you think you can open a bug report on this issue describing what you’d like to see and some technical details (possibly directly to me on email if they are sensitive), like a listing of the wine C drive (ls -R $WINEPREFIX/drive_c) after installation and a dump of the registry (wine regedit -E dump.reg).
about 13 years ago
I can’t get it to work.
I’ve used the testing ppa and when I try to start it, nothing happens. I am using Linux Mint 10
vineyard-preferences
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::link-color’ of type `GdkColor’ from rc file value “((GString*) 0x2489380)” of type `GString’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/vineyard/async.py”, line 131, in _callback
callback(*args)
File “/usr/bin/vineyard-preferences”, line 154, in __show_configurations
self.__update_configurations()
File “/usr/bin/vineyard-preferences”, line 177, in __update_configurations
for i in sorted(self.configurations, key=str.lower):
TypeError: descriptor ‘lower’ requires a ‘str’ object but received a ‘NoneType’
about 13 years ago
That’s unfortunately a known bug in this release.
The good news is that it’s already been fixed, the bad news is that that fix hasn’t been released as a package yet.
I’m finishing up the next release right now actually, but there are a few more (quick) things I want to add before it’s released.
You can try to run the version in trunk if you want, it works – instructions are at the bottom of the Download page.
UPDATE: The fixed version has been released.