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WINE problem... can anyone help? 04/09/2020 at 19:01 #131298
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Note that Wine 5.16 appears to have broken the SimSig window layout.
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WINE problem... can anyone help? 04/09/2020 at 19:21 #131300
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Albert in post 131298 said:
Note that Wine 5.16 appears to have broken the SimSig window layout.
In what way? A screenshot might help.

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WINE problem... can anyone help? 04/09/2020 at 20:23 #131308
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Here's the screenshot.


The main view appears in the corner, and even if you resize or move it, it goes back to the corner once you scroll.

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WINE problem... can anyone help? 04/09/2020 at 21:08 #131311
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There was an update to WINE a few months (years?) ago that did something vaguely similar. It turned out to be a bug in WINE that eventually got fixed. Not sure there is anything I can do.
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WINE problem... can anyone help? 04/09/2020 at 22:10 #131315
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I bisected it to the following commit in Wine: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/c5ec1585f6e5211a2b63e3435748210552250534

Apparently SimSig was broken by a one-line (!) change to accommodate full screen windows (which SimSig is not using) on KWin (a window manager that I am not using.)

Bug created on the Wine bugzilla: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49779

By the way, please split this thread from kbarber's internet connectivity problems which are unrelated to this graphical issue.

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WINE V5.16 issue 05/09/2020 at 10:02 #131323
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Thanks for this. I have a suggestion on another forum (haven't had time to try it yet) that 5.15 or 5.16 (devel versions, apparently - not sure my dinosaur brain does clever stuff like that) may be what I need. Clearly I need to stick to 5.15 when I try it out... thanks for th eheads up.
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WINE V5.16 issue 05/09/2020 at 12:27 #131330
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I think the most convenient way to get a development edition is to get the pre-built packages from the repository for Ubuntu. If you add that to your system, you will get 5.16 but the older versions are still online, so you can manually install these packages instead of adding the repository.

Assuming you use Ubuntu 20.04 (according to your thread on the Wine forum which I accidentally came across yesterday), I have looked up the packages for 5.15:

wine-devel-i386
wine-devel-amd64
wine-devel

Please remove your existing Wine and then install them in this order ^

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WINE V5.16 issue 30/09/2020 at 13:18 #132814
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I have received a reply on the bug I entered and it appears to be specific to the Cinnamon desktop environment.
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WINE V5.16 issue 26/05/2021 at 16:46 #139738
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For what it's worth: the bug got fixed in the window manager for the Mate desktop by a Wine developer and based on that, I was able to fix it myself in the Cinnamon desktop. As the patches have been accepted, this should be fixed in the next releases of distros with the Mate or Cinnamon desktop.

For reference the relevant commits:
Mate: https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/commit/60f49ae5a272b737a944065e4199c8b2c8eec8b1
Cinnamon: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin/commit/45c631cfc34de5022e5cc8c42f8b7c04991f8afc

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