Wine Reviews
| Trillian 3.1.7 on Linux with Wine |
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| Written by Tom Wickline |
| Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:14 |
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Wine Reviews
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Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications. Wine configuration This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop. $ winecfg Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish. Installing Trillian tom@tom:~$ wine trillian-v3.1.7.0.exe fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate (0x10024), partial stub! fixme:win:LockWindowUpdate ((nil)), partial stub!     If the installer crashes at the very end of the install at the "DirectX installation check" don't worry about it Trillian has been installed. Trillian first run tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Trillian tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Trillian$ wine trillian.exe fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.     
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