I finally got around to installing Linux on my laptop the other day, and I'm trying to use Wine to run some windows apps. Problem is, my programs never appear. They DO start - I can see them in 'ps -e' as well as Gnome System Monitor. Yet the window never appears. It's not just one program either; first I tried running Steam from the terminal and I can tell that it successfully launches. The window just doesn't get drawn. All other windows become unfocused when it launches and I'm even able to type in my password to log in (I know this because after I hit enter the "Steam Login" entry disappears from the taskbar and the "Steam" entry appears in it's place) but no Steam related windows ever appear.

The second program I've been trying to emulate is EVE Online. Similar thing happens: The EVE splash screen DOES appear, along with it's entry in the taskbar, but when it closes, the EVE client never becomes visible - no taskbar entry this time either. Again, I can see it running in ps -e or System Monitor, and one of my CPUs cores becomes maxed out, so I know it's running.

Also, I just noticed that I can right click Steam's invisible entry in the tray and bring up the context menu, but nothing more than that.

I've heard of fonts being invisible/incorrect under Wine, but not the entire program! This seems like it should be a simple fix, solved by correcting an incorrect setting. I've googled and tried running things in compatibility mode for various versions of windows, but have had no progress. What am I missing?

Debian Lenny
Wine 1.0.1-174-gc4039bd
Gnome (with and without Compiz)
2.5GB RAM
1.66GHz Dual Core CPU

try emulating 2d applications first. It's easier thought Unreal tournament (first) worked for me at first try with wine and non-3d apps should do the same. Anyway do linux 3d games work? Are gfx drivers installed?