Something wrong with my installation. Empty windows.

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depmco
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Something wrong with my installation. Empty windows.

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I'm a total Wine and Windows newcomer. Consequently, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

This is the second time I've attempted to install wine. When the first attempt failed (in a similar manner to this time), I requested help on this forum but got no response. I hope this time someone will have some suggestions. I have never gotten wine to work successfully on this system.

My system is linux mint 22.1, which in turn is based on Ubuntu 24.04
I've installed the appropriate version of wine-10.0.

All wine windows contain empty dialog boxes. I've installed msttcorefonts.
I've tried copying the contents of /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts to .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts; no change.

When I describe the wine windows as empty, I mean that they have the normal desktop decorations (title bar, window close, fullscreen etc) but the contents of the window contains boxes with no text anywhere. I've tried winecfg and wordpad

I've deleted .wine and attempted "wine winecfg", which produces a wine configuration window (with all boxes empty, no text) and
the following console output:

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wine: created the configuration directory '/home/greg/.wine'
002c:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
004c:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0054:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
004c:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hr 0x80004002
004c:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, hr 0x80004002
004c:err:ole:apartment_get_local_server_stream Failed: 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hr 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, hr 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:apartment_get_local_server_stream Failed: 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:start_rpcss Failed to open RpcSs service
009c:fixme:file:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
009c:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
00a4:fixme:file:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
00a4:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
00a4:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 5)
00a4:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 5)
009c:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
009c:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
010c:fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
002c:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
002c:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
0130:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
002c:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
0130:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x10
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Re: Something wrong with my installation. Empty windows.

Post by desessarts »

as an example, you can find here a detailed doc for installing the Windows software Captvty on various Linuxes including Mint

the v2 from
captvty.fr

the v3 from
v3.captvty.fr

this link

http://neo-net.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f ... 374#p56374

this is in french, but I think you will understand all, as it is self explanatory
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Re: Something wrong with my installation. Empty windows.

Post by depmco »

I'm still having trouble with my wine installation producing windows with no text. Turns out using a wine flatpak does work, kinda. At least some windows applications (e.g. notepad) produce have text and seem to work. I haven't figured out exactly how to run installed applications, though. I still would really like a directly installed version of wine rather than a flatpak.

Consequently I'm repeating my request for help in resolving my textless window problem. I only received one suggestion from my previous request, and it was for something in French that I really didn't understand.

Is it really true that no one has any suggestions? Or is my request to trivial to answer?

-- Greg
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