Wine config: dosdevice and fonts

rogerdugans · Post by **rogerdugans** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:55 pm

I am having some trouble that I have so far not found a solution to yet:

USB touchscreen that is not working in wine
application looking for "tahoma" font

More details:
First off, I am not a complete nOOb with linux, though I freely admit that I only learn what I must to achieve each new goal... been using linux for just about everything for around 7 years at this point, so I have picked up a bit.

I am trying to finish a car computer right now, with GPS, touchscreen and navigation software.
Wine is being used to run my current nav. software and does quite well now that I have created a dosdevice for the USB gps sensor.
I have been unable to figure out just what dosdevice to make to get my USB touchscreen to work however. (Touchscreen works fine in linux.)

The nav software also has an error that comes up each time I start it though: missing Tahoma font.
The program does run after I clear the error messages, and no text appears to be missing, but I need to click "ok" twice to clear them.

I am searching for answers myself, of course, but have not yet been able to fix these two things.
Any help is appreciated.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:05 pm

Don't know about the touchscreen, but for the font, just install it. Either copy it from a Windows install, or use winetricks.

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wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks tahoma

rogerdugans · Post by **rogerdugans** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:23 pm

Thanks for the winetricks info- about to do that now.

Still hoping for someone to have a clue on the touchscreen...

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:58 pm

rogerdugans wrote:Thanks for the winetricks info- about to do that now.

Still hoping for someone to have a clue on the touchscreen...

There is nothing special about touch screen. Wine works with it as a standard mouse. So you really have to configure your X to work with it. Not Wine.

rogerdugans · Post by **rogerdugans** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:41 pm

Well, that kinda sucks for me, lol.
KDE and all the native apps have no problem with touchscreen input, nor does the virtual machine I sometimes run.
The gps software I am using wine for, however, does.

Must be something in the app, which means more (and more painful!) research must be done by me.

But thanks for letting me know

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:38 pm

rogerdugans wrote:Well, that kinda sucks for me, lol.
KDE and all the native apps have no problem with touchscreen input, nor does the virtual machine I sometimes run.
The gps software I am using wine for, however, does.

What sort of problems?