Wine continued

We have many volunteers here and I want using Ubuntu to be easy to switch over to. Most of their time will be spent using Mp3direct cut running in WINE. The GNU/Linux filesystem will be alien to them, therefore I wanted the directories they need to access mapped to Drive letters so they called simply navigate to “My Computer”.

Unfortunately there is a problem with the WINE configuration utility that means that it is not able to write the user-defined labels to the mapped drives (labeling is under the “Show Advance” option under the Drives tab).

You can easily get around this by simply placing a text file called .windows-label in the root of the drives/directories you wish to label, with just your alpahnumeric label in it.

Corked Wine – Moving the Studio Over

I’m currently moving the Resonance computers over to Ubuntu. We have a variety of elderly P.Cs and this is throwing up a fair amount of annoying but not insurmountable problems.

Today it’s the turn of Wine. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux (as quoted in the Add/Remove dialog). I’m only really installing it for one application, the excellent Mp3directcut (I’ve yet to find a similar replacement for GNU/Linux)

The problem I’m having is that Wine’s fonts are completely garbled even in the native program itself! Fortunately the very active Ubuntu forums have an anwser:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6530843

A longer discussion of the problem can be found on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/300476