[SD-User] SD on Ubuntu

[Dave Sergeant]

I am currently playing with Ubuntu 8.04 on one of my machines so 
naturally tried to see how SD would run under Wine. I can find little 
guidance on the web on how to set it up, apart from a single email from 
Ian G4FSU this June on using it on an Asus.

I found like Ian that you cannot run it in normal Wine from the start 
menu - it sits there for a few seconds showing 'starting SD' then 
crashes out. But I can indeed open it from the Gnome Terminal using 
'wineconsole sd.exe'. I guess I could easily set up a script to do this 
from a desktop shortcut.

Once running it seems basically to work (not linked to the rig as it is 
in a different room..). But notice a couple of things:

The window is fixed in size and cannot be adjusted, fairly small on my 
desktop. But if I set the fontsize to 24 it gives me an almost full 
screen window.

A very noticeable delay every time I type something it, with the cursor 
visibly moving between various fields during callsign entry. So bad it 
would drive me nuts in a contest...

Machine is a 550MHz P3 with 512Mb ram, not the latest but most other 
Linux apps (native and Wine) run perfectly OK.

Any tips on how to do it, and perhaps it can be documented somewhere 
for others.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com