[LAU] Reaper under Wine: Bugs and Questions
Joakim Hernberg
jhernberg at alchemy.lu
Thu Mar 9 20:03:54 UTC 2017
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 04:03:52 +0100
"Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com> wrote:
> I have a few bugs and questions when running the Reaper DAW under wine
> which sit unanswered on the Reaper (Cockos Confederated) Forum, so I
> take the liberty to ask on this list if anyone has experienced similar
> problems.
Haven't seen that one, but don't read all of it.
> 1,)
> Reaper loses all keyboard shortcuts. This usually happens after having
> switched from/to Reaper and other applications of after switching
> desktops multiple times.
>
> 2.)
> The "Save Project..." dialog suggests EDL TXT (Vegas) as default file
> extension, which can be changed by the user manually every time, but
> is very annoying.
>
> 3.)
> when I am adding a single mono audio file to an existing Reaper
> timeline under Linux/Wine from a graphical filemanager (xfe) using
> drag+drop, the file is inserted twice, on two adjacent tracks, but
> with a time-offset between the two copies.
I haven't seen any of these, at the very least for a long time, but I
don't use xfe.
> All three issues are with Reaper 5.30 under Wine 1.6.2-20 in Debian
> testing with Window Manager Fluxbox and have existed since several
> older versions of Reaper already.
I'd say get a hold of a newer version of wine.. FWIW, I've run reaper64
in 64b wine daily for many years now. There are a few warts, but
mostly working as it should.
--
Joakim
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