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IE6 under IceWM

Bob van der Poel [bob at mellowood.ca]
Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:19:08 -0700

Hi. I've dl'd and installed the IE6 running under Wine from https://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page This is useful step in testing web page development ... I don't care enough about it to actually test with a real windows machine, but if I can test locally using IE6 it is not a big deal.

Under gnome or KDe it works just fine. But, it crashed (or stalls) under icewm. I have tried to start from a terminal and from the toolbar. Under a terminal I get the Wine debug prompt, and a "loading" window. But that is about it.

I am thinking there is a path difference or something. But, I have checked and don't see and obvious differences.

I have checked on the tatanka page and don't see anything on this topic. And a request to the IceWM users list has drawn a blank as well. Maybe one of you guys has an idea on this?

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob at mellowood.ca
WWW:   https://www.mellowood.ca


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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:12:37 +0100

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:19:08PM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi. I've dl'd and installed the IE6 running under Wine from
> https://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page This is useful step 
> in testing web page development ... I don't care enough about it to 
> actually test with a real windows machine, but if I can test locally 
> using IE6 it is not a big deal.
> 
> Under gnome or KDe it works just fine. But, it crashed (or stalls) under
> icewm. I have tried to start from a terminal and from the toolbar. Under
> a terminal I get the Wine debug prompt, and a "loading" window. But that
> is about it.

Are you telling Wine to manage its own windows, or are you allowing the window manager to? I would suggest you tell wine not to manage its own windows to see what happens.

-- Thomas Adam

-- 
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Bob van der Poel [bob at mellowood.ca]
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:58:54 -0700

Thomas Adam wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:19:08PM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I've dl'd and installed the IE6 running under Wine from
>> https://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page This is useful step 
>> in testing web page development ... I don't care enough about it to 
>> actually test with a real windows machine, but if I can test locally 
>> using IE6 it is not a big deal.
>>
>> Under gnome or KDe it works just fine. But, it crashed (or stalls) under
>> icewm. I have tried to start from a terminal and from the toolbar. Under
>> a terminal I get the Wine debug prompt, and a "loading" window. But that
>> is about it.
> 
> Are you telling Wine to manage its own windows, or are you allowing the
> window manager to?  I would suggest you tell wine not to manage its own
> windows to see what happens.
> 
> -- Thomas Adam

Not being a wine expert at all ... how does one do this? The ie6 thing I have is a script "ie6" which just calls wine with a complete path name to the installed location of the MS-binaries.

-- 
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob at mellowood.ca
WWW:   https://www.mellowood.ca


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