expanding wine desktop

rtrdom · Post by **rtrdom** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:52 pm

Wine is installed in Ubuntu Gutsy. It shows up on desktop when called from
terminal. However it is only about 3 inches wide on 17 inch display. Cannot
get it to expand. Have tried all display modes on this machine. Does not help.
I can see when clicking on a tab, something happens but cannot tell the name
of the tab nor what it displays after clicking on it. Does anyone know how to
correct (expand) so it can be read?
Thanks.

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:27 pm

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:52 -0500, rtrdom wrote:

Wine is installed in Ubuntu Gutsy.

What version of Wine? If you're not sure, try running wine with the
--version flag.

It shows up on desktop when called from
terminal. However it is only about 3 inches wide on 17 inch display. Cannot
get it to expand.

In winecfg, on the Graphics tab, what do you have for a Desktop size?

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rtrdom · Post by **rtrdom** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:23 pm

I would be happy to provide the information about the version but alas I get
the following with "wine -version" :wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\-version.exe": Module not found." If I could read any of the tabs on the wine desktop, I could tell you the desktop size. I cannot read any of the
information on any part of the wine desktop. The only button I see is the close button (X) in the upper right and three buttons whose names are
indiscernible along the bottom of the wine desktop. I think I will have to remove wine and re-install it in order to be able to use the only program I
want to use there. That is Streets & Trips, because I travel a bit.
Thank you for your suggestions.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:00 pm

rtrdom wrote:I would be happy to provide the information about the version but alas I get
the following with "wine -version" :wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\-version.exe": Module not found."

The command is

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wine --version

two dashes, not one.

rtrdom · Post by **rtrdom** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:25 pm

Thanks for correcting me. using the --version it shows 0.9.46. I'm on a
short "holiday" so it may take me a while to get back to you. Thanks for
the respose.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:28 pm

That version is very old. Try upgrading to 1.0.

rtrdom · Post by **rtrdom** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:32 pm

Thanks again for the help. I have succesfully updated to 1.0 by following
directions at: "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... pdate+wine" (Thanks very much for the good
information jonathan.gardner04. I can now see the complete wine
desktop so I will attempt to install my program (if it isn't still here). If
I need more assistance, I will surely return to this post or perhaps a new
one.
Thank you demisio and Paul Johnson for your kind assistance. I will
consider this solved.