Cedega & Crossover Office

mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: Cedega & Crossover Office

Hi guys,

I'm a little new to linux; I only started using it as my main OS about a month ago. I want to run some windows applications; including, but not limited to ACDSee, Winamp, Activesync (for my phone), and Visio (for work). I did some research and found Crossover Office.

The thing is that I use Cedega to run warcraft (still haven't had the chance to try anything else because I'm in a new job and it takes a lot of my time).

I have Cedega working with no problems and the perforamce is great. I got cxoffice yesterday and tried to get it to work, everytime I try to install internet explorer (because ACDsee needs it) I get an error and when I try to use it I can get to normal site but I can't connect to gmail or yahoo mail. I tried version 4 and 4.1 but had no luck, acdsee installs but doesn't work.

Can both versions of wine be installed on the same machine or is that impossible, I didn't try warcraft after installing cxoffice, so I don't know if it is working or not and my machine is not available at the moment.

thanx in advance guys

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

wasnt aware ACDSee was on the supported list, have you checked it out on the compatibility list on codeweavers site?

mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

Thanx for the quick reply. I found all the programs I mentioned earlier in the supported list of cxoffce, I think all of them are not tested but I'm not sure.

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

Then what can I do to get it working properly??

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: WI, USA

forget Winamp.

emerge xmms

same thing, really....

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mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

I was using it, but my computer was hanging every few days. a friend of mine told it was a problem between xmms and opengl, I thought that I should give it a try and stopped using it for 2 weeks now. my computer didn't hang once. I hated rhythmbox but it is the only thing available now. is there anything that is close to winamp other than xmms

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

used to use beep-media-player (CVS version) which I liked but have now went back to xmms

mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

ya its xmms ported to GTK+ 2

Dais · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 977 Location: Québec

Instead of emuling ACDSee, try ShowImg or gThumb for example
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mohshami · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:57 am Post subject:

Thax for the replies guys. I installed gThumb, its nice, but not exactly like acdsee (there is no zoom lock :'( ) I'm downloading ShowImg now to try it. Beep seems nice but still lacks in features. I'll stick with it for a while to try it out.

But it seems that we forgot the initial subject. How to get cxoffice to work :'(

hardcampa · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 58

mohshami · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject:

I tried gqview and hated it. I love ACDSee for the way it works, I've been using it since 1998. I think I will stick to gThumb because it is much lighter than ShowImg. ACDSee 5 and 6 were very bloated, but 7 is much lighter than they are.

I'm using beep now and its working ok, I just miss a feature in winamp where I click mod4+w to show/hide the window, in beep and XMMS it only shows, I want to be able to minimize the window or press mod4+w to hide it. I'll check out the OSS thing in xmms and give it another try.

I need cxoffice to use visio, thats the only reason I still have windows installed on my work computer. What can I do??

COiN3D · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject:

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

I know it doesn't help much with getting ACDSee to work, but I found that gqview is a pretty good alternative for basic viewing. I definately recommend it, it's pretty good, IMHO.

mohshami · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:24 am Post subject:

I found gthumb better for basic viewing (which enough for me btw). It is even faster than ACDSee which makes it really great. Except I'd really like to have zoom lock. Yes xmms is far away from winamp, I didn't see any improvements since I first played with it 2 years ago. Beep is making progress and will surpass xmms soon (maybe not soon, but in a while

).

cxoffice is not running guys, I have a 2.4.26 kernel, does that have anything to do with it?

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

mohshami · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

cxoffice guys, I'm pretty much fed up with windows here at work :cry: