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drbenway

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Aug 3, 2011
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Hello.. Apologies if this should be in a different part of the forum.. I hope someone can give me a bit of help with this...

There are a couple of windows-only programs I wanted to try out and as I've used Wine on a Linux machine before I decided to download Winebottler from here: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

...Since I didn't install X11 originally and my SL install DVD is currently in another country (long stupid story) I downloaded and installed Xquartz from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki


Anyway, after restarting I noticed that the .exe files I'd downloaded now had the Winebottler icon... all good so far... I double clicked on a .exe and Wine seemed to open... but Xquartz did not...

The window asking me if I want to "Run directly..." opened up ok, but after I click OK nothing happens... No Xquartz, no error message, nothing.

Other apps I've used which require Xquartz/X11 automatically open it when they run, but Winebottler doesn't seem to do this... I tried opening Xquartz manually first, then running a Windows app via Wine, but same thing: Winebottler seems to be completely ignoring Xquartz.

I've tried: Reinstalling Xquartz, reinstalling Winebottler, rebooting several times...

Any ideas, folks? ...I'm hoping this is one of those really stupid and obvious things that I've overlooked!
 
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