Program runs in Xfce, but not KDE?

aarons6 · Post by **aarons6** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:19 pm

I play a game called Ultima Online..
the client runs 100% just fine when im using xfce but crashes when im using kde?

nothing else has changed on the system. i do use kdm ive tried gdm as well.

any ideas?

i can just log out, switch session to xfce and play the game with no issues.. but i like kde..

FatButtLarry · Post by **FatButtLarry** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:47 pm

Me too.

What versino of KDE? Is it a version with the desktop effects?

If so, in the control panel, you can disable the desktop effects and
troubleshoot from that perspective. Might not help, but its a starter.
Cheers.

-Tres

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19 PM, aarons6 <[email protected]> wrote:

I play a game called Ultima Online..
the client runs 100% just fine when im using xfce but crashes when im using
kde?

nothing else has changed on the system. i do use kdm ive tried gdm as well.

any ideas?

i can just log out, switch session to xfce and play the game with no
issues.. but i like kde..

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aarons6 · Post by **aarons6** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:08 am

ok so ive done some testing and i turned off the effects..
it seems if i use the desktop shortcut.
env WINEPREFIX=/home/aaron/.wine/ wine C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe
it crashes in a few minutes..

but, if i open a term, go to the UOKR folder, and type in
wine UOKR.exe

it will run for several hours without crashing..

any ideas?

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:07 am

2009/8/2 aarons6 <[email protected]>:

it seems if i use the desktop shortcut.
env WINEPREFIX=/home/aaron/.wine/ wine C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe
it crashes in a few minutes..
but, if i open a term, go to the UOKR folder, and type in
wine UOKR.exe
it will run for several hours without crashing..
any ideas?

Is this X crashing completely, or just the UOKR program crashing?

Getting the log may be useful, to see what it does when it crashes:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-13df66c ... 1479c880f5

Weird problem

No doubt it will have an interesting solution ...

- d.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:38 pm

aarons6 wrote:ok so ive done some testing and i turned off the effects..
it seems if i use the desktop shortcut.
env WINEPREFIX=/home/aaron/.wine/ wine C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe
it crashes in a few minutes..

but, if i open a term, go to the UOKR folder, and type in
wine UOKR.exe

Sounds like XFce doesn't change the work dir (Path parameter in .desktop file). Which is strange, it used to work AFAIK. Can you test it with a simple app like 'echo $PWD'?

aarons6 · Post by **aarons6** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:25 pm

David Gerard wrote:2009/8/2 aarons6 <[email protected]>:

it seems if i use the desktop shortcut.
env WINEPREFIX=/home/aaron/.wine/ wine C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe
it crashes in a few minutes..
but, if i open a term, go to the UOKR folder, and type in
wine UOKR.exe
it will run for several hours without crashing..
any ideas?
Is this X crashing completely, or just the UOKR program crashing?

Getting the log may be useful, to see what it does when it crashes:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-13df66c ... 1479c880f5

Weird problem No doubt it will have an interesting solution ...

- d.

this is my problem, i tried to get a log, but when i run it via command in the term the program never crashed lol.

i think it might be something to do with kde and the desktop shortcuts.
the shortcut is the same, it was created by wine durring install.

i never had a problem with this program for months untill i switched from xfce to kde.

FatButtLarry · Post by **FatButtLarry** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:47 pm

Just clarifying that

env WINEPREFIX=/home/aaron/.wine/ wine C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe

is actually

env WINEPREFIX="/home/aaron/.wine/" wine "C:\Program Files\EA Games\UOKR\UOKR.exe"

This is how the shortcuts look on my desktop (KDE 4.2). The quotes
may not matter, but I know the forward slashes can be a b****. You
can also do double-forward slashes.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/aaron/.wine/" wine "C:\\Program Files\\EA Games\\UOKR\\UOKR.exe"

-Tres

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DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:14 pm

Oh, the double quotes matter. If they weren't there, your terminal would interpret
C:\\Program
and
Files\\EA
and
Games\\UOKR\\UOKR.exe
as seperate arguments. Unless you put a backslash before each space, then it is recognized as "a space".