I installed Winmx with wine and no text is displayed for search results. I can see that there are results, because there is an indicator that says how many hvae been found, but I cannot see them to choose which to download. I've tried various font configurations and color schemes, all with the same result. Any suggestions?

It has to do with fonts. You have to get some of the microsoft fonts that you have to download from a search from google

I have the same problem and unfortunately this does not appear to be the answer.
I have all my Windows fonts installed via the KDE font installer and still WinMX displays correctly all other text except the main frames such as search results, transfers, etc.
I REALLY hope its a simple fix as im hoping to move all my p2p transfers to a Linux box whereas now I use Linux for BitTorrent and Windows for WinMX (the Linux box is always running which is why id rather use that for them all).

you may have all the fonts installed, but did you tell wine where these fonts are in ~/.wine/config? my guess is that you didn't. the section in ~/.wine/config would look something like:

a ";" is a comment tells wine to ignore the line.

I expected it would be something like that. Thanks I will give that a go!

It has nothing to do with fonts.

Sadly, its been so long since I got it working, I don't remember what I does have to do with, but, the good news, is I know what you need


-rwxr-xr-x 1 coreyfro users 749568 Oct 1 2003 WinMX.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 coreyfro users 8178 Feb 18 16:45 colors.dat
-rwxr--r-- 1 coreyfro users 529680 Oct 2 2003 comctl32.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 coreyfro users 32768 Oct 1 2003 errcatch.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 coreyfro users 50 Apr 29 00:47 library.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 coreyfro users 5488 Oct 1 2003 license.txt
-rwxr--r-- 1 coreyfro users 626960 Oct 2 2003 oleaut32.dll
-rwxr--r-- 1 coreyfro users 432400 Oct 2 2003 rpcrt4.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 coreyfro users 12476 Apr 29 00:47 settings.dat
-rwxr--r-- 1 coreyfro users 1338880 Oct 2 2003 shdocvw.dll
-rwxr--r-- 1 coreyfro users 395264 Oct 2 2003 shlwapi.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 coreyfro users 94208 Oct 1 2003 uninstall.exe


This is the list of files needed to make WinMX display text. I got them from a Win2K box and it works great. The program isn't terribly stable, but it should stay up for a day or two... it is a processor hog as well.

my advice? get Overnet... its better... its native... and the command line client on a linux box can be connected to gui's on linux, windows, mac-os, etc. It rocks... I can check my download progess from the otherside of the earth (and have)

I got it working without having the last two .dll's (shdocvw.dll & shlwapi.dll). They weren't found on my WinXP partition, but the others were. If people are interested, I don't mind hosting those .dll's or sending them to people through AIM if people are still interested.

why dont you just avoid all that and get winetools, google it, you should find it, it has all the files you need to run most windows apps, i found it in a photoshop section winehq.com you donwload it install it and goto run and type winetoolz and it come up gives you options for system files, fonts, and so on, it will even install some programs if you have the install files. the only problems i got with winmx is that crashs when i try to share files/folders and after a little while of chatting.

btw, i use lopster mainly now, its just as good, its alittle wacky witht he way it downloads, but its still good