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This has to be the longest shot ever, but:
▷ Anybody here using "Paint Shop Pro 7" (yes, that one! 🧡) under Linux via Wine?
Runs almost perfectly, but there is this bug:
▷ Right-clicking on a layer opens up two overlapping context menus, and the lower one (the one you would want) is not accessible. 😶
Any idea how to fix this? 🥺
I'd be incredibly grateful for any tips or boosts!
#PaintShopPro7 #Wine #Linux #LinuxMint #PSP #PSP7 #PaintShopPro #Retro #Graphics #JascSoftware
@duke_of_germany My solution for running software from that era is running it on windows 2000 in virtualbox.
@duke_of_germany
give this a shot:
You may need to adjust the Wine DPI setting. You can find this is Wine Configuration (winecfg) under the Graphics tab. try 240dpi perhaps.
Oh, this setting did not even occurred to me!
I just tried several different values, but sadly, it did not fix it.
Thank you for the suggestion! 💜
@duke_of_germany aye... that sucks. I hear wine DPI scaling can be a bit finicky. I've never had to mess with it myself. Some online guides state you need to do a ton of extra work to make wine honor the monitors DPI scale. Meanwhile, that may just solve your overlapping context windows however, and not the larger problem of why that menu is grayed out.
Oh, I see! Yes, I can see why it might cause troubles (e.g. in some applications, it only scales parts of the UI for me).
In the case of the PSP7 bug, my theory is this:
When I right-click on the layer, the click is first (correctly) applied to the layer, resulting in the correct popup to appear.
But for some reason, the layer does not consume the click event, which is then also passed to the underlying palette window, opening the additional popup which then "hogs" the focus.
@duke_of_germany Maybe it's a window manager overriding wine's scaling... that's my only plausible, educated, guess.
Source: I've used Linux for a decade on and off, but I rely on guides normally since my memory isn't so great for long strings.
@duke_of_germany (Oh wow, that one still exists 🤩)
It does!! 🧡 Isn’t this awesome? And you could just use it right now! (under modern Windows without any extra steps, under Linux via Wine)
So you also used it in the past?
@duke_of_germany a little, I also remember there used to be an Animation Shop Pro.
Man, that was far too many years ago 😃
@duke_of_germany oh that's weird, that may be a regression, I have PSP7 and while I haven't used it in years it was my go-to for a LONG time under wine (even pre 1.0 it worked great). What WINE version are you using? could try rolling back to an earlier version (8.0.2 is readily available on most distros and lutris/bottles still, as well as the 7.0 line but you could also try going back to 4.0 or 5.0, can still pull the official releases)
I am currently using wine-9.0. I will try downgrading, that's a good idea!
I just quickly tried Bottles, but could not get anything running at all with it (using runner "wine-ge-proton8-27-lol", just to try one out), but I probably just don't know what I am doing.
So I will try to figure out how to properly install an older Wine version under Linux Mint and see if this makes things better!
Ok, I figured out how to properly install the older Wine versions.
I was not able to go back as far as 7.0 (because of an uninstallable dependency "ldap-2.5.0"), but I was able to go back to 8.0.1, and for good measure, also tried 9.0, 10.0 and 11.0. Unfortunately, they all show the same behavior. 🥺
(Will have a look at Lutris / Bottles then. If you later can think of anything else, I'd be glad to know!)
Thank you for your reply! And it is always good to find other PSP7 users! 🙂
Ok, by downloading precompiled versions of Wine, I was able to go back to 5.22. But the first version that allowed me to run both the installer and PSP7 itself was 7.0, and it already had the bug. 🥲
@duke_of_germany @raptor85 You should be able to install the app under one wine version, and then reuse the same prefix (aka bottle) to run it with an older wine version.
