Description of problem: I use MS-Bookshelf-98 for all these years on all types of Linux platforms. In Fedora 11 I have Gnome, Xfce and LXDE desktops installed on my laptop. In Gnome I am using Bookshelf by Wine from the time of F7, and for the last two months or so on F11. The Bookshelf CD is kept in a folder bs, in my HOME:Documents, and so the first time I installed it with 'wine /home/dd/Documents/bs/setup.exe', and from then on, there is a link in the Wine submenu of the main menu as 'Bookshelf and when I click on it the program gets activated. Now, in LXDE, if I click this link, it does not work. Even calling it from command prompt with something like 'wine .win/c_drive/<path>/bshelf98.exe' does not work too with a few error messages. But if I 'rm -fr .wine' and then install it once again, it works. But, that too, till the next reboot. This is quite unexpected. The MSW application that I am trying to run is a decade old, and it is running fine on Gnome without any glitch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The standard LXDE and all its components, and Wine and all its components in F11. How reproducible: Every time.
Hi Das, thanks foru your bug report. First question: Do you see the same in Openbox? Not sure if this is a LXDE bug or if it should be filed somewhere else. (In reply to comment #0) > Now, in LXDE, if I click this link, it does not work. Even calling it from > command prompt with something like 'wine .win/c_drive/<path>/bshelf98.exe' does > not work too with a few error messages. What error messages? Please post them. > But if I 'rm -fr .wine' and then install it once again, it works. But, that > too, till the next reboot. This is quite unexpected. Please do a ps -A before and after. I guess there must be a wine helper process running that is not run in a normal LXDE session but gets triggered during the installation of bshelf98.
P.S.: If set 'Severity' to medium again. Plaese don't use this fields, in RH Bugzilla 'Severity' and 'Priority' are only for internal use.
Can you please provide the necessary info I asked for in comment #1? Otherwise I cannot fix your bug.
Hi Das, please help me to debug this problem if you want it to be fixed. Setting NEEDINFO flag.
Dear Wickart. Sorry for being so very late. Actually I am going through a lot of problems. Anyway, after reporting this bug I started using Gnome or Xfce. And then some time back, around two weeks, I again logged in to LXDE for the sole reason of reporting back. But, then, I saw everything has started working properly. I decided to report it. But was not getting the time at all. Sorry for that. Thanks.
Just for the record and because I'm also involved in Xfce: Does wine work correctly in Xfce for you?
Yes. I use Xfce on both my laptop and desktop on fedora 11, and I really like it. Everything functions as everything should on it. I am on Xfce from f7 times when someone on fedora mailing list suggested me about it, because that time my desktop machine was a low-end one. Now both of the machines I use are quite fast and able, but I have got stuck to it. The think that made me fall in love with Xfce primarily was the right-click menu. Though for some time the earlier menu has come to the lowest entry as 'applications' in the right-click menu: I liked the earlier one. I work regularly mainly in text-processing, some film works, like viewing them and minor works in subtitles or encoding, and I use my very old MS-Bookshelf 98 (please don't hate me) with Wine for hours every day. Never had anything to complain. And beware: from now on if I ever get one, I will report directly to you, not just the mailing list. If you ever need a test report or something on my system, I am willing to help. I feel quite indebted to you Xfce guys.
Thanks! Stay tuned for the F12 Xfce Spin, it's going to be awsome. ;) I'm going to close this bug now because I cannot reproduce it. Thanks for your report.