Hello Sir/Madam,
I am sandeep, a text conversion specialist at
Office of Disability Accommodation from University of North Texas. We assist
physically disabled students at UNT by providing their course work in
alternate text format. One of our students encountered a different problem.
Problem: She needs to work with some softwares like Amber, Gaussian etc
which are related to organic and physical chemistry on Linux Operating
system. But she may not be able to do that without the help of a zoom in s/w
like Zoom text.
I came to know that "Wine" enables the user to open a windows based
application on Linux environment and i also heard that it is not completely
developed.
What i wanted u to help me out in this is : Whether wine is able to open
zoom text (we r using version 8.0) software in Linux. If yes, please let me
know the procedure of doing it. Or else, please suggest me any other
possible solution that u r aware of.
Thank you,
Sandeep Panchakarla
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Usage of "wine" s/w to open a windows based applic
Currently, the best way to test if an application in Wine is by trying it. This can always be done by choosing to "open" the exe file with Wine in your file manager of choice, or by opening a terminal, cd'ing to the directory where the exe is, and running this command:
wine appname.exe
If the application is run through a file manager, one loses the ability to see if the application crashes spectaculary or not (well, sometimes a Wine "crash" window will open, but not always). Running the application in the terminal will also provide you with any output that you can send to bugs.winehq.org if the application does not run in the end. This will help the Wine developers fix the bug at some point in time.
Another important note is that Wine can not usually handle special external hardware directly (I can imagine plenty of scientific devices that communicate directly with special scientific software); if any of the applications use such devices they will probably not work in Wine. A workaround could be available if the device itself is detected correctly by the Linux distribution, but this kind of thing falls outside my own area of knowledge.
I hope that you get the application running without any problems.
wine appname.exe
If the application is run through a file manager, one loses the ability to see if the application crashes spectaculary or not (well, sometimes a Wine "crash" window will open, but not always). Running the application in the terminal will also provide you with any output that you can send to bugs.winehq.org if the application does not run in the end. This will help the Wine developers fix the bug at some point in time.
Another important note is that Wine can not usually handle special external hardware directly (I can imagine plenty of scientific devices that communicate directly with special scientific software); if any of the applications use such devices they will probably not work in Wine. A workaround could be available if the device itself is detected correctly by the Linux distribution, but this kind of thing falls outside my own area of knowledge.
I hope that you get the application running without any problems.
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Martin Gregorie
Usage of "wine" s/w to open a windows based applic
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:12 -0500, Daemon wrote:
on-screen keyboard as a mobility aid - probably other gnome distros do
too.
Look under System|Preferences|Personal|Assistive Technologies
Martin
Same for Fedora (both Orca and the Gnome magnifier). Fedora also has anThere's the Desktop Zoom/Magnifier plugins for Compiz. Also ,at least
on Ubuntu(shameless plug), ships with Orca and gnome magnifier. I'm
sure there's lots more resources available then what I mentioned on
the Linux side , unless I'm totally missing what you're asking. :^)
on-screen keyboard as a mobility aid - probably other gnome distros do
too.
Look under System|Preferences|Personal|Assistive Technologies
Martin
