QuickTime in Linux

January 8, 2002

After seeing how well it worked for Brian (bma), I decided to buy my own copy of the Crossover plugin. Movies play fine in my browser (Galeon), and the independant player works great as well. The only installation issue I had was with the QuickTime 5 installer; Enlightenment maps the full-screen override-redirect above the setup window, with no real way to raise it. The solution? Temporarily allow WINE to manage all it's windows, instead of deferring non-full-screen windows to the window manager. You can do this by commenting out the line that says "Managed" = "Y" in your Crossover WINE configuration file (usually $HOME/crossover/dotwine/config). Incidentally, this same fix also works for cranky Windows installers in standard WINE.