wine Invisible Text

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AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:30 am

I am not sure if this belongs here, but I saw the largest number of wine posts in this forum so I chose it.

I have an interesting problem with wine 0.9.25: most text is invisible. I first noticed this when I tried to run Packet Tracer 4.0 in wine, but I have now noticed it with other applications I have installed in my .wine directory. Text such as dialog boxes, menu entries, button captions, etc is all invisible. I have done a bit of searching but all I could find was to ensure that freetype is installed an that all fonts are installed. Freetype is installed, and I copied all of the fonts from the corefonts package to .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, but no luck.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:39 am

If using the nvidia driver, don't put this in xorg.conf, because it can corrupt wine's fonts:

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Option      "RenderAccel"       "True"

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:41 am

Okay, that is in my conf file, so I will change it and see if that helps. Going to bed for now though

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:25 pm

Okay, I commented out renderaccel to no effect. Menus, dialogs, buttons, etc still have invisible text. Is there something else I can try?

kaktuspalme · Post by **kaktuspalme** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:30 pm

I've got the same problem so i make a downgrade to 0.9.24, i've talked to an arch linux user, he has 0.9.25 but he has no problems with the fonts.

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:52 pm

I read on the wine appdb bugzilla that it may have something to do with the tahoma font, however I copied tahoma.ttf into .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, so I don't know what it could be. I shall try a different wine version as well.

kaktuspalme · Post by **kaktuspalme** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:04 pm

Hmm, i've downgraded to 0.9.24, but the same prob now with this version.

Edit: Now I've downgraded to 0.9.23 still same prob.

kaktuspalme · Post by **kaktuspalme** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:54 pm

Ok, it seems that i've solved the problem.
Install Winetools, and install all the Fonts in Base System and under Core Fonts.
To start winetools with wine 0.9.25 you must have an edited /usr/local/bin/wt

You Can download it here
http://hotel482.server4you.de/linux/wt
Copy This File into /usr/local/bin/wt and now you can start winetools.
But Please make no Fake Windows Drive with winetools it should work without it.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:30 am

Here's the ebuild for winetools.

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:44 pm

Thanks, I will try that when I get back home after this weekend. Will let you know sometime Monday.

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:05 am

Okay, I used the ebuild above to install winetools and the script to run wt. I installed all of the core fonts after installing Internet Explorer 6 SP1, but still, all of the text is invisible. Am I missing something?

kaktuspalme · Post by **kaktuspalme** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:08 am

IN base setup it has a font arial, have you installed it?

That's my list:

dcom98.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:29:13
arial32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:32:35
andale32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:35:01
times32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:36:09
arialb32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:55:28
comic32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:56:26
courie32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:57:32
georgi32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 18:59:26
impact32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 19:03:25
trebuc32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 20:16:50
verdan32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 20:25:14
webdin32.exe = installed at 22.11.2006 20:26:55

And have you installed ActiveX?

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:22 am

I believe that ActiveX comes when installing Internet Explorer, yes? If so, then yes I have Active X. Here is my font list:

arial32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 12:53:02
dcom98.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 12:54:37
mfc40.dll = installed at 28.11.2006 13:24:42
mfc42.dll = installed at 28.11.2006 13:24:50
Microsoft Internet Explorer.* = installed at 28.11.2006 21:54:40
andale32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:55:52
arialb32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:56:16
comic32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:56:42
courie32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:57:17
georgi32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:57:45
impact32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:58:11
times32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:58:49
trebuc32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:59:14
verdan32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 21:59:40
webdin32.exe = installed at 28.11.2006 22:00:02

AliasXZ · Post by **AliasXZ** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:14 pm

another way aswel:

if you have a Windows installation / can get hold of the tahoma font just stick the tahoma font in your wine's windows/fonts folder and it fixes the issue...