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Wine configuration 

Speedup startup 

Add this to "~/.xinitrc", 

  #!/bin/ksh 

  ... 

  [[ -z `pgrep wineserver` ]] && wineserver --persistent 

  ... 

X clipboard compatibility 

Launch the registry editor, 

  wine regedit 

create that folder, 

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver 

create this key (string) inside it, 

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver\\UsePrimarySelection 

and set the string to, 

  Y 

Ref. http://www.winehq.org/status/options 

Missing DLL & fonts 

To install missing DLL and major fonts like Arial, winetricks may help, 

  wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks 

  sh winetricks mfc42 corefonts 

Ref. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks 

Misc 

Debug, 

  export WINEDEBUG=+clipboard 

  wine notepad 

Configure clipboard. Make sure those are defined in your config, 

[Clipboard] 

"ClearAllSelections" = "0" 

"PersistentSelection" = "1"