Capita SIMS

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interele
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Capita SIMS

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I have been trying to get Capita SIMS working on openSUSE. This is ( unfortunately ) the default management system in schools and the client is only available for Windows. This I suspect is one of the main reasons schools ( at least in the UK ) shy away from GNU/Linux. Anyway I have it running and it looks ( apart from two things ) beautiful, actually better than it does in Windows. The two things are listed below and I have attached screen shots. If anyone can offer any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it

1. Login box is wrong. The username is mostly hidden under the title bar
2. Some text is out of align on screens

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Re: Capita SIMS

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How did you install the program? Did you use any winetricks?

Can you post a terminal output?
https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User's_Gui ... mmand_line
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Re: Capita SIMS

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interele wrote:...
  1. Login box is wrong. The username is mostly hidden under the title bar
  2. Some text is out of align on screens
It would also be helpful to have some screenshots, taken on a native Windows system, for the purposes of comparison (re: issue #2)...

It might also be helpfui to have a Wine terminal log, with the +font channel enabled:

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export WINEDEBUG=+font
wine ...
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Re: Capita SIMS

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Here is what it looks like on Windows
I will do the other stuff later today
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Re: Capita SIMS

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interele wrote:Here is what it looks like on Windows
I will do the other stuff later today
Could you change the Wine debug channels to:

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export WINEDEBUG=+font,+loaddll,+module
wine ...
So hopefully we can see what controls framework your application is trying to load...

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Re: Capita SIMS

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I haven't forgotten about this. I did something and now the app doesn't work at all !
As soon as I get it going again I'll come back

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Re: Capita SIMS

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Does that program have a free download?
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