# Xubuntu 18.04 launcher error

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737>\
**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [October 2, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737 "2018-10-02T23:13:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ni\_Neith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ni_neith/32/182183_2.png) [@Ni\_Neith](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ni_Neith)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737/1 "2018-10-02T23:13:11Z")

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Hello, I am getting a whine error as soon as I try to start the game. Installed it through wine. Is it fixable? I tried to set the launcher to dx9, but it didn’t fix the problem. I don’t know what to do.

Thx.

 ![eve](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/6/b/6b4494180470981cac88071cd0ee0d23e90fe5ce.png)

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**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737/2 "2018-10-03T09:05:37Z")

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Did you set WINE to run in “Windows XP”-mode?

If not then first start `winecfg` and select Windows XP at the bottom.

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**Author:** ![Ni\_Neith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ni_neith/32/182183_2.png) [@Ni\_Neith](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ni_Neith)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737/3 "2018-10-03T17:23:37Z")

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Yes, thanks. This worked. I can start the game. But I have a question about what settings is it best to run in. I tried fullscreen but as soon as i tab out and want to come back the window is minimized. Is there a way to fix it. THX

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**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737/4 "2018-10-04T04:36:03Z")

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I’m not sure. I haven’t done this in a while myself. You can try to run `winecfg` again and give it its own desktop with a fixed size, but it depends much on the window manager you’re using.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/8/6/861183e4b47da39bd02e1c97c5e1e50d8601c0a5.png)

I run two clients and in windowed-mode myself so that I can switch between them simply by selection their windows over a panel on the edge of my screen. Then I don’t even need to press Alt-Tab, but I can switch with only the mouse and I can also switch to a browser and a terminal window more easily etc… Since I use DXVK does minimizing a window then save a lot of CPU and GPU power, because DXVK uses Vulkan and it makes a huge different in performance as well as power consumption.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/xubuntu-18-04-launcher-error/110737/5 "2019-01-02T04:50:13Z")

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