Multiboxing in Linux

[zenga]

Not entirely sure what you mean, and only did (quite a while ago) a brief test with keyclone. What i did was fire up the wow clients one by one, then run keyclone in wine, and basically everything worked out of the box. I don't really saw a need to start wow from inside keyclone, unless u want to do PiP.

That being said i see little to no use for using keyclone under linux, since hotkeynet, autohotkey (compile exe, then run) and even isboxer are supposed to work with wine. Not to mention that there are some native linux tools that can accomplish the same.

[ShadowBumble]

Not entirely sure what you mean, and only did (quite a while ago) a brief test with keyclone. What i did was fire up the wow clients one by one, then run keyclone in wine, and basically everything worked out of the box. I don't really saw a need to start wow from inside keyclone, unless u want to do PiP.

That being said i see little to no use for using keyclone under linux, since hotkeynet, autohotkey (compile exe, then run) and even isboxer are supposed to work with wine. Not to mention that there are some native linux tools that can accomplish the same.

If there is a native alternative i absolutely have no use to use keyclone i presume you are talking about xdotool that is in your signature ?

[Daeri]

so you mean keyclone won't auto add windows if you run wow clients like I and Zenga said ?

[ShadowBumble]

so you mean keyclone won't auto add windows if you run wow clients like I and Zenga said ?

Nope that is correct i did find out after playing around with some switches that if i create the launchers like this

wine "D:\Multibox\Main\Wow.exe"
wine "D:\Multibox\Slave1\Wow.exe"
wine "D:\Multibox\Slave2\Wow.exe"
wine "D:\Multibox\Slave3\Wow.exe"
wine "D:\Multibox\Slave4\Wow.exe"

instead of

wine explorer /desktop=Main,1024x768 /MultiBox/Main/Wow.exe -opengl
wine explorer /desktop=Slave1,800x600 /MultiBox/Slave1/Wow.exe -opengl
wine explorer /desktop=Slave2,800x600 /MultiBox/Slave2/Wow.exe -opengl
wine explorer /desktop=Slave3,800x600 /MultiBox/Slave3/Wow.exe -opengl
wine explorer /desktop=Slave4,800x600 /MultiBox/Slave4/Wow.exe -opengl

that keyclone is auto adding them, and it brings a lot more stability altho the windows are now actually 1024x768 and 800x600 for the slaves if i go to video options ingame it still claims to be on 2880x900, yet it doesn't burden my Videocard anymore since my memory use went down a lot.

So basically it comes down that if you use the native dir structure of Linux in wine to boot it like this

wine "/Multibox/Main/Wow.exe" -opengl

it doesn't show but if you use the wine dir structure ( with mapping drive letters to dirs/drives ) it does work.

[Daeri]

Glad to read things are starting to work on your end

The strange part is that I've no trouble running a Windows program using a linux native dir structure. Maybe this is something that depends on configuration specific to the distribution ?!

[ShadowBumble]

Glad to read things are starting to work on your end

The strange part is that I've no trouble running a Windows program using a linux native dir structure. Maybe this is something that depends on configuration specific to the distribution ?!

I am using a quite Mainstream ( well MS in Linux terms that is ) distrobution ( ubuntu ) so i have no clue but since it all works i am just happy Just hope this info might be handy for other people later on.