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Wine Update Breaks Audio Playback for Windows Apps in Ubuntu
The latest update to Wine has broken audio support for Windows apps in Ubuntu.
Wine 1.3.25, released last Friday, saw a rewrite of audio support based on that in Windows 7. The major issue resulting from this is the breakage of audio support for PulseAudio – Ubuntu’s default sound server.
Create desktop launchers for Wine apps easily with WLCreator
Zarko Zivanov dropped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to spread word of a new tool he’s made for easily creating launchers for WINE apps in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Wine integration tool ‘Vineyard’ gets new pre-release
A new pre-release of Ubuntu-Wine integration tool ‘Vineyard’ has been made available for testing.
CodeWeavers unleashes new Windows Impersonator
CrossOver Impersonator, a Windows emulator, promises high performance for Unix/Linux systems. With Wine 1.3.9 under the hood, it raises the question: what differentiates this Wine based program from any other? We ordered a copy to find out.
Play Angry Birds under wine on Linux
Rovio media have no plans to actually bring Angry Birds to Linux, with their previous statement it being something they were ‘looking into’ since translated as ‘no plans at all.’
Still, if you’re an Angry Birds fan looking to get your feathery fix on Linux you still can – using everyone’s favourite binary beverage ‘Wine’.
CEDEGA shutting down, GAMETREE LINUX born
Commercial Wine software ‘Cedega’ is to “cease operation” at the end of February, parent company TransGaming Inc. have today announced.
Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’
Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have – and we can thanks to an application called ‘Vineyard’.
Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.
Wine 1.3.9 brings beginnings of ActiveX support
Another week and another Wine development release.
What has version 1.3.9 spilt out over the tablecloth we call the desktop?
Wine 1.3.8 released
The weekly development release of Wine landed on Friday with the usual smattering of minor additions, bug fixes and improvements.
Wine 1.3.7 Released with improved system tray support, fixes
Bang on schedule the latest Wine development release is now available for download/installation. New features in this release include: – Improved system tray support Better support for installers with assemblies GStreamer support fixes Many MSXML improvements Translation updates and misc. bug fixes Maverick users can upgrade using the official Ubuntu Wine PPA @ ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa. Note: [...]
Easily get Wine apps to match your GTK theme
Nothing sucks more about running Wine applications in Ubuntu than the visual yell of “HEY! I’M NOT NATIVE!”.
The following tip is a quick and pain-free way to get Wine apps matching the look of the rest of your desktop.
OMG! 5! – Five ways to make Wine apps feel native in Ubuntu
Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That’s no way to experience your OS – we’re put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop.
In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.
Add a neat little Wine app menu to your panel
Joe Lawrence sent us over this incredibly simple yet worthwhile tip for avid Wine users. Sourced specifically because ‘cool menus’ such as Cardapio don’t let you run easily launch Wine applications. He’s already written it up and supplied some screenshots for us (thanks Joe!) so here it is: how to add a neat Wine menu [...]
Wine 1.3.1 Released
The latest development version of Wine 1.3.x has been released. Wine 1.3.1 sees everyone’s favourite none-an-emulator add: – Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE. New ipconfig.exe builtin tool. Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer. Beginnings of a shell Explorer control. A number of DirectDraw code cleanups. Improvements to the calendar control. Bug fixes [...]
Installing Picasa 3.8 in Ubuntu via WINE: What works, what doesn’t.
Google Picasa 3.8 was released yesterday to much fanfare. A bunch of neat new features landed including: – Edit photos in Picnik directly from Picasa 3.8 Batch upload Photo properties and the show stealing ‘Face Movie’ feature Ubuntu users don’t have access to a neatly packaged version of 3.8. Here’s where Wine comes to the rescue [...]