wine and ms office?

[pattim]

Dear Wine Users: I am running OpenSuSE 13.1x64 KDE and the default Wine install from the repos

patti@linux-l8th:~> wine --version
wine-1.7.2
patti@linux-l8th:~>

I tried installing my personal copy of MS Office 2007 and it seemed to start wine fine and to install, but for some reason the mouse cannot resize the windows. For instance, excel comes up partial screen, and I can neither click and drag it around the screen nor resize it with a mouse click: The little spot in the lower left corner is there, and when I hover the mouse pointer over it, it changes to the MS Win double-ended pointer consistent with the intended resize operation, but left-clicking doesn't "grab" the lower left corner. I can only maximize the windows or leave them at their default size.

If I click on the KDE taskbar > More Actions > Resize, then I *can* resize it. But not clicking directly in the MSO/Wine window.

Is this a known bug?

Thank You Very Much,
Patricia

[dimesio]

There's a known issue with the maximize button not working under certain conditions (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30587), but I've never encountered what you describe, and I've been using Office 2007 in Wine for 5 years on openSUSE.

Your Wine version is old, so you should upgrade, but I doubt that's the problem. How did you install Office? If you didn't follow the instructions in the AppDB, please reinstall following those instructions.

The only other thing I can think of would be some setting in KDE. Try disabling desktop effects.

[pattim]

Googled AppDB thousands of entries for MSO2007. I've always installed by just clicking on the installer and wine fires up by itself. But I haven't tried that in a while... Can you provide a link to the AppDB instructions you mentioned? The version of wine I'm using is the OS default.

[pattim]

EDIT; I just installed MSofficeXP using PlayOnLinux (after uninstalling the system wine). The version seems newer. I used the "Uninstall Wine Software" applet, which is actually the Windows Add/Remove Software Control Panel Applet. I guess now I'll try that same method of installing 2007...

patti@linux-l8th:~> wine --version
wine-1.7.31
patti@linux-l8th:~>

[dimesio]

PlayOnLinux is not supported here, so if you use it, ask for help on their forum.

The AppDB instructions are here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=4992. Note that the part about installing to a clean 32 bit wineprefix is essential; Office 2007 will install to a 64 bit wineprefix, but the installed apps will not work properly (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30785).

[pattim]

Thank you very much for the replies. Yes, I understood POL isn't supported here, just trying to troubleshoot (i.e., was it a wine version issue). I am back to vanilla wine now (v1.7.31). I installed OfficeXP and everything works as expected (installed simply by running the installer and letting wine set things up).

For O2007, I'm trying to understand the instructions you referenced, if I understood correctly, here:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=4992

Trying to understand. I saw that YaST installed wine and wine-32.
So I need to tell wine to force a wine-32 installation for Office2007.
I got as far as creating the wineprefix 32:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32_bit_wineprefix

But I'm having trouble figuring out how to install to *that* particular prefix, and force it's use. Wine creates Application Launcher items, and they don't appear to be pointing to the right prefix. (The OfficeXP Application Launcher items do point to their prefix.)

[dimesio]

You have to run the installer from the command line and specify that wineprefix, the same as you did when you created it. Menu links created by the installer should then point to the correct wineprefix.