No text in IE6 with ies4linux

[jrusso2]

That's what I'm seeing - just a few random icons dotted about the screen.

It almost looks like to me that whatever font it wants to use for the menus is not present.


I'm using 7.04 so it's not just Gutsy thats broken, as someone else said - chances are it's wine thats at fault.

I have forgotten which font windows uses but if there is a way to change the menu font to another one its worth a try.

[confused57]

What version of wine are you guys using?

I'm using 0.9.53winehq on AMD64 and I'm unable to see the buttons or toolbar text.

EDIT: I just downgraded to 0.9.46ubuntu and now the menu's work. There is some type of regression in the latest wine. Perhaps somebody should let the Wine people know about this.

I downgraded from 0.9.53winehq to 0.9.51winehq, which corrected the missing toolbars & text(on a 32-bit pc):
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html

I thought it might be something I was doing wrong, trying to run ie6 with 0.9.53 in Feisty, cpu would spike & remain at 99-100% ...had to kill wineserver pid from terminal. ie6 works quite well with 0.9.51.

[jslmg]

I downgraded from 0.9.53winehq to 0.9.51winehq, which corrected the missing toolbars & text(on a 32-bit pc):
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html

I thought that might be the issue, and I was just about to do the downgrade, too.

[jslmg]

Well, when you remove Wine, at least in synaptic, you'll have to remove ies4linux too, unless there's a method for avoiding that.

I'm gonna go ahead and remove ies4linux, too, then start fresh... first installing the wine downgrade, then ies4linux again.

[Matthijs van Henten]

Hello, I fixed it like this:

$export WINEPREFIX="/home/matthijs/.ies4linux/ie7"
$winecfg

in winecfg, change the windows version to something else (window 98 )

Remember, the ies4linux wine files don't reside in ~/.wine but .ies4linux
So you'll have to configure each separately.

Hope this helps,

Bye

[jslmg]

Hello, I fixed it like this:

$export WINEPREFIX="/home/matthijs/.ies4linux/ie7"
$winecfg

in winecfg, change the windows version to something else (window 98 )

Remember, the ies4linux wine files don't reside in ~/.wine but .ies4linux
So you'll have to configure each separately.

Hope this helps,

Bye

Well, I went ahead and downgraded to 0.9.51, which fixed the problem fully. However, I'll always have 0.9.53 showing up in my Update Manager for eternity or until I find out there's been a fix in ies4linux. That's the caveat.

So, Matthijs's fix might be better, if it means keeping 0.9.53. So, I may update to that, then try Matthijs's fix later.

For those of you doing the downgrade, make sure to fully remove Wine through Synaptic first, along with ies4linux. Restart the computer to purge all caches and whatevers. After reboot, proceed to http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html, and get the 0.9.51.

After installing that, get ies4linux. Use achatwick's deb package for best results, if you haven't already--does a very efficient job, and puts IE6 right into your usr/share/applications folder. Get it at http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...6&d=1197785907.
Read about it at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636758

[joeycbulk]

Interface does not show clearly because of the theme used. To fix this you need to use the defaults.

cd ~/ies4linux/ie6
cp user.reg ~/user.reg.old
gedit user.reg

In the text editor, delete [Control Panel\\Colors] and the entries under it.

This is the part that I deleted. I'm not sure if every one has the same.

[Control Panel\\Colors] 1200623437
"ActiveBorder"="228 228 228"
"ActiveTitle"=hex(1):
"AppWorkSpace"=hex(1):
"Background"="0 0 0"
"ButtonAlternateFace"=hex(1):
"ButtonDkShadow"=hex(1):
"ButtonFace"="228 228 228"
"ButtonHilight"=hex(1):
"ButtonLight"="228 228 228"
"ButtonShadow"=hex(1):
"ButtonText"=hex(1):
"GradientActiveTitle"=hex(1):
"GradientInactiveTitle"=hex(1):
"GrayText"=hex(1):
"Hilight"=hex(1):
"HilightText"=hex(1):
"HotTrackingColor"=hex(1):
"InactiveBorder"="228 228 228"
"InactiveTitle"=hex(1):
"InactiveTitleText"=hex(1):
"InfoText"=hex(1):
"InfoWindow"=hex(1):
"Menu"="228 228 228"
"MenuBar"=hex(1):
"MenuHilight"=hex(1):
"MenuText"=hex(1):
"Scrollbar"=hex(1):
"TitleText"=hex(1):
"Window"=hex(1):
"WindowFrame"=hex(1):
"WindowText"=hex(1):

Make sure to stop deleting before the next group.

Example: Stop deleting line before the ff.
[Control Panel\\Desktop] 1200623418
[Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics] 1200623418
[Control Panel\\International] 1200623413

[Ludwik]

Interface does not show clearly because of the theme used. To fix this you need to use the defaults.

Works great, thanks!

[campero]

Same thing is happening to me, it was fine before and all the sudden it doesn't work any more. Same symptoms. Any suggestion on how to fix this?

[Tyche]

Thanks for your "quick and dirty" solution. Worked like a champ. There appear to be other problems with either the installation or wine, but certainly not a fault of yours.

Thanks Again. I've added a "Thanks" to your info on the right hand side of your header, too.