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Wine modification

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jonmar
Enraged Bears
#1 - 2016-05-27 02:57:15 UTC
CCP Snorlax.

Whenever the Launcher sets up multiple characters, Wine labels each of the instances as "wine". This makes it difficult to quickly look for the appropriate character via Command-Tab. (The annoying white flash between instances does not help either)

Is there any possibility of giving the individual instances a unique name? Preferably the name of the character involved but if thats not possible then just a simple individual label... say wine1, wine2... etc.

This is not high on the list of necessary things to do but merely "nice to have".


CCP Snorlax
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2016-05-30 23:25:55 UTC
I'll look into this.

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#3 - 2016-05-31 01:31:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Vincent Athena
While you are looking into things about Wine....
I have been trying to find ways to increase my fps when running multiple clients. I have found one way: click the yellow button on the client's window, minimizing it to the dock. But its quite inconvenient, as it makes switching to another client a two step process. Minimize one, then select the other.
I tried two other ways. One was to set up each client in a separate space, using the Mac spaces feature. This actually reduced the fps. The other was to use the "hide" feature, which you can do by holding down the option key when selecting the desired client from the dock. This did nothing to the fps.
Its like the computer is continuing to do all the graphics calls even when you cannot see the client as its in a different space, or hidden.

Unless its minimized to dock; then the computer does not do the graphics calls.

So I'm wondering. When you set up eve in Wine, it there some setting that stops the graphics calls when the client is hidden, just like the graphics calls are stopped when the client is minimized?

Oh, and the market data plot still has no labels.

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CCP Snorlax
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2016-05-31 10:20:31 UTC
The market plot has labels on my machine - are you on the latest launcher version (1037417) and the latest non-dev Wine release?

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#5 - 2016-05-31 12:45:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Vincent Athena
Yes, and yes. I also checked with today's launcher, 1044956. No labels. OS 10.9.5


Edit: OK, I started messing around with the preferences. I wondered why there was a Use DX9 button, as I thought we were always stuck with DX9. I clicked it and the launcher downloaded several meg of files. I launched a client, and the labels showed up. But its also making the computer run MUCH hotter. I'll fiddle some more.

Edit 2: I'm not sure what has been going on. Turning off the "Use DX9" did not make the labels go away. I still have them. Somehow I think my launcher got stuck in a mode where it would not download new wine versions, even though I was re-starting after changing the preferences. Clicking on that DX9 setting somehow goosed it into doing a proper update. Or I just fumble fingered something. But, I think I have not been getting all the Wine updates you have been pushing out, until just today. In any event, its working now, except for the high heat load.

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