#3213 NORM Opportu: Running WINE on the XO

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#3213: Running WINE on the XO
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  Reporter:  ssb22        |       Owner:  jg                        
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                       
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Opportunity (please help!)
 Component:  distro       |     Version:                            
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  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by ssb22):

 On build 605, the Sugar frame no longer partially obscures X applications
 launched from the developer console, so it's no longer necessary to do the
 twm thing (however, in *some* cases you need to press Alt-= to hide the
 developer console before you can see the X app; note that Alt-= is more
 like a toggle hide/show than a start/quit shortcut).

 On that build, you can get wine-0.9.44 by taking the XO to a Wi-Fi hotspot
 and typing "su" and "yum install wine" (which takes about 20 minutes).
 You may want to run "winecfg" and uncheck "allow the window manager to
 control the windows" in the Graphics tab.  You can also increase the DPI
 there, but not above 120 apparently (typing a higher number into the box
 is not effective) so you still need to set large fonts in applications.
 Audio should be set to OSS.

 However, as previously mentioned, it's sometimes necessary to run old
 versions of Wine in order to get an app to work.

 Magnification remains an issue.  I expect a variant of the use of x11vnc
 described at http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/setup/vnc-
 magnification.html will work (i.e. start an x11vnc server and tell it to
 magnify, and run the Wine application in that), but it's likely to take a
 lot of CPU (and hence battery) even if it's worked out so that screen-
 panning is avoided.  It's *possible* that adding lower resolution modes to
 XF86Config (i.e. http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/setup/zoom.html) will
 work (I haven't tried this yet, and screen-panning could get fiddly on the
 XO's touchpad).

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