A few newbe Question/Problem.

[ioky]

I am very new to Wine, Always have it install it, but never really use it. finally, few day ago. I install my very first software with Wine. It is a Game, and it run perfectly smooth, Wine is Awesome. However, I do run into some little problems.

Launcher: Wine automatically set up a icon/launcher on the Desktop for me, and it runs great, However, when i try to create exactly same Launcher with the exactly same command in the Menu. the Launcher doesn't work.
There is what I use:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/ioky/.wine" wine "C:\ODINSOFT\Foolish\FOOLISHGAME.EXE"

When I run this command in Shell, here is what I get:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f6ec,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16
fixme:imm:ImmGetDescriptionW (0x4090409, (nil), 0): semi stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetDescriptionW (0x4090409, 0x159028, 9): semi stub
the the windows close out.

Sound: This problem seem a bit weird to me. If I just start my computer without doing anything, the sound of the game work fine, however, as soon as I play a music player, in this case Audacious. The sound can only work when music is playing while wine start. If I stop the music and open the game/wine, The sound doesn't work. This is not only just happen to that game but the whole wine system. So now, I much play some music with the player, and then open wine in order to make the sound work.

Keyboard Keys: The game is am playing with wine are original full screen game. However, I used Emulate a virtual desktop to run it because the game is old, and it looks very bad with my 22" monitor. When I use the virtual desktop mod, the Tab key, and the ESC doesn't really work. It seem to work in the very few sec, if I am lucky, but It doesn't really work for long, and I don't know when exactly it will work. For the game I am playing, I really need those key to work out right in order to play. Those key only work in full screen mod.

I understand that some of my problems/Question are not necessary a Wine Problem. But It would be great, if those things work out right.

Thanks, Wine is great.

[Bamm]

aside from copying the command, you may also need to copy the directory which the program will run in. many windows programs prefer to be run from their installation directory for them to find their data files.

[vitamin]

Launcher: Wine automatically set up a icon/launcher on the Desktop for me, and it runs great, However, when i try to create exactly same Launcher with the exactly same command in the Menu. the Launcher doesn't work.
There is what I use:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/ioky/.wine" wine "C:\ODINSOFT\Foolish\FOOLISHGAME.EXE"

There is also "Path" aka work dir in the .desktop file you need to copy.

Sound: This problem seem a bit weird to me. If I just start my computer without doing anything, the sound of the game work fine, however, as soon as I play a music player, in this case Audacious. The sound can only work when music is playing while wine start. If I stop the music and open the game/wine, The sound doesn't work. This is not only just happen to that game but the whole wine system. So now, I much play some music with the player, and then open wine in order to make the sound work.

Looks like you have pulseaudio running - disable/kill/remove it. It conflicts with Wine or any other program that uses ALSA or OSS directly.

Keyboard Keys: The game is am playing with wine are original full screen game. However, I used Emulate a virtual desktop to run it because the game is old, and it looks very bad with my 22" monitor. When I use the virtual desktop mod, the Tab key, and the ESC doesn't really work. It seem to work in the very few sec, if I am lucky, but It doesn't really work for long, and I don't know when exactly it will work. For the game I am playing, I really need those key to work out right in order to play. Those key only work in full screen mod.

Make sure that none of the modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) "stuck". Just press each of them several times.

[ioky]

Make sure that none of the modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) "stuck". Just press each of them several times.

I don't think that is because of modifier keys stuck though, it feels like more a software problem. The ESC key in one of the game actually work for the very first time, but after that, it doesn't work any more. Plus they do work under full screen.

I can understand the answer for the first two questions. but I still unclear why the third one happen, and how to fix it.

Thanks for the help.