Miranda under Wine
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Linux is not a natively supported operating system, but Miranda is known to run on Linux under Wine.
Running Miranda in Wine
Creating a separate Wine profile for Miranda NG
Create a separate directory for Wine to store its profile for work with Miranda:
mkdir -p $HOME/.wines/miranda/
If $HOME variable isn't defined, replace it with path to your profile:
mkdir -p /home/USER/.wines/miranda/
Initializing Wine profile
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wines/miranda/ wine winecfg
- Decline installing the stuff (It's not needed to run Miranda).
- Select Windows XP on Applications tab.
- Click OK to close.
Installing Windows libraries into Wine profile
Copy the following DLLs from Windows XP x32 or Windows 2003 x32 to directory $HOME/.wines/miranda/drive_c/windows/system32/ (Libraries from Windows 7 x32 and higher haven't been tested):
- msftedit.dll
- msls31.dll
- riched20.dll
- riched32.dll
- secur32.dll
Start Wine configurator again:
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wines/miranda/ wine winecfg
- On LIBRARIES tab select and add the above mentioned files.
- On DESKTOP INTEGRATIONS tab uncheck all the items in Folder section.
- On Drives tab select Z: and specify the path: /home/USER/.win_soft/Miranda_NG/
- Click OK to close.
Installing Miranda NG
Copy Miranda NG files to directory $HOME/.win_soft/Miranda_NG/, also copy your Miranda database files here, e. g. in Profiles subdirectory.
Specify path to directory containing your Miranda database in ProfileDir= setting of mirandaboot.ini.
Starting Miranda NG
env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wines/miranda/ LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 wine $HOME/.win_soft/Miranda_NG/Miranda32.exe
Differences under Wine
What doesn't work
- SSL connections
- Copy text feature in TabSRMM (works in History++)
- Sometimes input language switches to English when TabSRMM window is inactive.
- Some settings cannot be viewed/changed, namely lists with icons next to checkboxes, e. g. Contact list → Extra icons.
- Keyboard LEDs won't flash on message received event (KeyboardNotify)
- Received files folders are opened in ugly Wine explorer.
- Menus don't work occasionally: they close if a tooltip pops up.
- Themes from Windows 7, only classic Windows XP look is available.
- Lots of animated smileys cause high CPU usage.
- Many smileys have got white background (was transparent in Windows).
- Probably something else :)
What works
Everything else