Innerspace under Wine

intelligence · Post by **intelligence** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:11 pm

Hi,

Having some problems with my Wine setup, trying to run WoW with IS.
This is what the console looks like:

I have installed Courier, Tahoma and Verdana.

With IS open I can't use buttons such as "m" - toggles the mem usage etc
nor "t" - will make the window go into tiny mode

Which indicates that alt + shift is being pressed at all times, anyone got a clue about that? If I try to press alt + shift + t on my own, nothing happens.

Cheers

intelligence · Post by **intelligence** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:38 am

Diag:
http://www.pastebin.ca/976715

Post by **Lax** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:55 am

I don't know what to tell you, apparently it performs differently with Wine on your Mac than it does for people running various flavors of Linux. The console font you're seeing is a fixed-width Courier, so if there's anything to be done about it, it'd be installing a different Courier font. But as far as keys acting stuck, again this is something that I can't even test because I don't own a Mac or know anyone that does, nor can I justify the cost of buying one at this time.

There's quite possibly a way to configure Wine differently to fix it, but unfortunately that's not something in my area of knowledge.

intelligence · Post by **intelligence** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:13 am

I'll buy you flight tickets to Sweden so you can test on my iMac.

No but seriously, you haven't seen anything like this before?
I noticed the Innerspace post on winehq about hotkeys not working in wine, I seem to have working hotkeys though?

loop · Post by **loop** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:57 am

Just to add some additional information here, this problem is not specific to IS + Wine on OS X. It is a general IS + Wine problem at the moment. I have a vague idea what the problem is, Lax, perhaps you could shine a little more light...

The "cryptic text" in console will appear in the IS console (right click the IS icon, click Console) if you have not installed a valid monospace font in your .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts directory, created a new skin to reference that font (in my case, I chose Consolas) and then set that skin to be used in InnerSpace.xml (<Setting Name="Skin">Interface/LinuxSkin.xml</Setting>). Once you have done that, the IS console will render text correctly. Also change any other font references in this file to some available font in your Wine fonts folder.

Even though the IS console will now render correctly, loading up a WoW session (I have not tried any other games) and hitting your ~ key will display a console with "cryptic text" again, despite the fact that the IS console is rendering correctly.

It seems as though the consoles created for a specific game session are not acknowledging the monospace font specified in the skin.

If this helps at all, I would be happy to be a guinea pig to see if we can get console fonts working in Wine.

Thanks!

Post by **Lax** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:36 am

Sounds like you set the skin for the uplink, but not for sessions. Open the IS configuration window, click on the User Interface tab, and make sure that the "Skin XML File" is set to what you think it is. Have fun

loop · Post by **loop** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:38 am

Ignore my post above, I'm just incapable of reading through the entire Innerspace.xml file.

Game session consoles have a second config option:

<Set Name="Session">

<Setting Name="Skin">Interface/LinuxSkin.xml</Setting>

<Setting Name="Interface">Interface/DefaultUI.xml</Setting>

<Setting Name="Configuration">Configuration</Setting>

</Set>

Changed the skin there and all is well.

loop · Post by **loop** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:40 am

You beat me to it. Thanks Lax!

To the original poster, the problem you're having with your console is skin/font related. Copy the default skin in the Interface folder to "WineSkin.xml" or something. Open it and change the monospace fonts to a real monospace font (it must be monospace) in your drive_c/windows/fonts directory. That will fix your problem.