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Wine + Tiger + FreeNX = WTF

Situation: You’ve installed Wine onto your headless Linux server with the goal of using DVDShrink. Afterall, the server is mostly idle, must use those cpu cycles for good! After following the instructions, you get to the setup portion and what do you see,

Indeed.
But if you connect the server to a monitor, Wine works fine. So what’s the problem?

Problem: Seems when using Wine with trusted X11 forwarding, like FreeNX uses, on MacOS X, text isn’t being rendered. I couldn’t tell you the reason, I’m just stating the facts here.

Resolution: Edit the user.reg file in your ~/.wine folder and add these lines,

[Software\Wine\X11 Driver] “ClientSideWithRender”=”N”
And problem solved,
:D

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One Response to “Wine + Tiger + FreeNX = WTF”

  1. Kelly Says:
    June 17th, 2006 at 9:35 am

    Yeah. M. Night whateverhisname is has movies that just draw me in. I don’t like scary movies like that, but I just can’t turn the channel.

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