Just installed Wine. Also just installed Microsoft Word Viewer. (Just want to see that my OpenOffice documents look okay in Word)

Anyway, when I run the Word Viewer by double clicking on the file in Konqueror it works fine:
file:/home/mark/.gnome/apps/Wine/Programs/Microsoft Word Viewer.desktop

However, when I run it through the Star menu under:
Wine / Programs / Microsoft Word Viewer
what happens is the task shows in the task menu that it's trying to start, that is, it has the hourglass spinning, but after about 15 seconds it just closes instead of running.

Why is this happening? Isn't it running the same file that I double click on in Konqueror?

How do I fix this?

Thanks!

Open Menudrake. Check whether the links are correct. Else create symlink so that Menudrake works correctly. Syntax: ln -s [source] [destination].

Menudrake shows
wine "C:\\Program Files\\WordView\\WORDVIEW.EXE"

I don't know how to tell if this is correct or not. Where would I look for WORDVIEW.EXE?

Hi vbmark, in C:\\Program Files\\WordView\\WORDVIEW.EXE, there are apparent errors, should be C:\\Program Files\WordView\WORDVIEW.EXE. Make the changes, save changes, logout, login and recheck.

Also issue this command, if the above does not help:
which WORDVIEW.EXE
or
which wordview.exe

This will give the path. To learn more do man which.

Ok, there is a bigger problem going on here than meets the eye.

I tried your sugestion:
C:\\Program Files\WordView\WORDVIEW.EXE

and also tried
C:\Program Files\WordView\WORDVIEW.EXE.

and still the same problem.

But here is the interesting thing. Now the link that was working in Konqueror: File:/home/mark/.gnome/apps/Wine/Programs/Microsoft Word Viewer.desktop
does the same thing now. Trys to run then close.

Also, all the Wine links under the "Emulator / Wine" group do the same thing.

And interestingly some of the games from the default install do the same thing.

Is there something wrong with the OS configuration?

Where do I start to fix this?

Thanks!

OK, you need to see the contents of .wine directory. I think all programs are installed there. In konqueror, enable 'show hidden items' and see whether all programs are there or not. If not try to find where the .exe files are located. I think the links are incorrectly set up by menudrake.

A tip: You can run wine programs with the command in Konsole (or other terminal) - wine executablename.exe. Sometimes GUIs don't work in linux.

Ok, it looks as though all of the files are there.

[mark@localhost WordView]$ which wine
/usr/bin/wine

When I try to run Wine via the command line I get the following:

[mark@localhost WordView]$ ls
INSTALL.TXT MSCREATE.DIR setup/ WWINT32V.DLL
LICENSE.TXT README.DOC WORDVIEW.EXE*
[mark@localhost WordView]$ wine WORDVIEW.EXE
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
WineDbg starting on pid 0x8
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000004 in 32-bit code (0x4
0008483).
In 32 bit mode.
fixme:dbghelp:elf_load_debug_info_from_file Unsupported Dwarf2 information for l
d-linux.so.2
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:003b GS:0033
etc...

Bad wine?

can u try this command as root.

just guessing. lower the screen resolution to 16bit or 24bit and try to run from command line.

check for error messages in syslog directory for diagnosis of problem.

btw, i would suggest a reinstall of wine to the latest version.