Keyclone and Linux

[Zanjii]

So, I finally got around to it. Came across Bezzeh/l/i/j (I think thats correct) in AV yet again, and yet again he turned a hopeless fight around and basically won it for us. So. Having basically hit a dead end in terms of "solo" play, I guess its time to take the plunge and keep the interest going through Multiboxing.
I had a dapple last night, toying around with two characters in Durotar, and I have some questions.
I downloaded Keyclone because I heard/read good things about it, and lo and behold, it worked! On Linux, with no tinkering. Amazing! Well, it almost worked, slight quirks with the setup and all the tabs showing on top of each other, but hey. Close enough.

So I fired up two instances of WoW, created Zanjii and Xanjii, and went for it. Set up some macros for following, focus and assist, and went killing.

And at this point, I have a few questions:
First off, running this on Kubuntu, I throw my WoWs on different desktops and switch between them, and the third desktop where I have Keyclone and Firefox (dual-boxing.com) running. But every now and again, switching to and from, keyclone seems to "shut down" and stops sending keypresses to the other WoW app. Its marked on the keyclone app with an asterix (*). I got it working again in a fairly non-scientific way, by restarting various things until it did. I'm suspecting this might be me pressing the pause key though, after having read a bit more on here. I'll check on that, and if that is indeed what the * means, please ignore this part. Although on second thought... The default key is on Pause/Break? I sure didn't hit that, so unless I changed the pause key in my fiddlings...
Secondly, I never paid for Keyclone, although I intended to do so once I figured out whether it'd run or not. But it seems to "work", the above non-withstanding, without me doing anything, dispite a few claims here and on solidice.com/keyclone saying you need to license to get it running. Don't know if this is the cause of the first problem or not, just thought I'd bring it to your (Keyclone's) attention. I also cannot read the MotD, and I never saw anything saying "License here". Is this intended use, or has Linux somehow haxx0red the program?

Cheers

[keyclone]

your problems are due to the license not being active. go to the about box and hit 'get a license' and that should help resolve it.

also, what windows emulator you running keyclone under? or are you saying it ran right off? (i've never tried running a windows app directly in linux). what kernel?

and yes... a PM directly also works

[elo]

That's awesome man! Well, not the part about you stealing our buddie's software, but that you got it working .

I dual boxed for years with my second machine running Linux. Wine has gotten VERY good at supporting WoW, and I think even just the standard RPMs will work for it now (used to have to do special compiles).

I drifted away for 5 boxing because I knew I'd be fighting my own skill enough that I didn't want to add in another wild card to the mix, but it's a very viable setup for playing WoW these days.

I can't for the life of me figure out why Blizz won't release a client for Linux. They've got one for OSX, which is Unix based, so the port can't be that much more difficult. Maybe in time.

[Zanjii]

I run it under straight Wine. Used Cedega once upon a time, but it seemed to cause more problems than it solved.

I was fairly amazed by it "just working" (TM) myself



Thanks for clearing it up for me fella, you shall receive payment once I get around to setting this up for real. I ran this using a friends account, and I doubt I can get to use it regularily. Looking damned much forward to doing this properly in a few weeks time!

Regarding PM's, I tend to like open posts more, on the off chance that someone else might have the same issue.

Also, damned good response time in here, eh?