Comments on: Google Talk on Linux using wine

By: Avery

Avery — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:02:33 +0000

I can run it on Crossover Office 5.0 as well. What’s really peculiar is the first time I load it, it starts, shows the main window and vanishes - the second time I try it loads and stays and you can browse through the settings. I do get the same kind of connection error that you’re reporting there. Looks like it’s closer to working that way - I’d be a bit doubtful if any of the audio “stuff” would work but who knows?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:44:12 +0000

Crossover Office version 5.0 can run google talk without crashing. However I cannot seem to connect, I get an error message saying ‘Could not authenticate to server’. Its closer to working but not quite there yet.

By: Ivan Peevski

Ivan Peevski — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:20:41 +0000

After install, it brings the main window. It looks unresponsive, but actually all that doesn’t work is keyboard input. If you copy/paste the username/password, it is quite happy to take them, but then it crashes:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe
00000017 0

By: Robin Haswell

Robin Haswell — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:04:30 +0000

Yeah I’ve tried the same thing using cvswine. At work the client bombs out with some error about ntdll. However on my home machine (again, cvswine) I think it’s stable, although I didn’t really have time to actually use it before I had to rush off. I might try X11 forwarding later and see what happens.