Desktop Controller - Wine - another failure for Linux

  • 25 November 2018
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I installed Wine on Mint 19 without problems. Then installed the Win Desktop Controller .... all I see is a nice black Sonos flash fixed permanently on screen. Have to reboot to clear.

Any gurus with some tips out there?

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Have you installed dotnet40 from winetricks? Which is your desktop controller file called?
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Ooopa! I forgot to update this thread .... got it working using PlayonLinux.for dotnet40

It's a bit slow AND there's one screen bug which I can't solve.

When I select a source, eg. Sonos Favourites, the Queue panel heading line flashes a rainbow background before returning to black (?!?).

I'm using the latest 9.3 controller with Win7 prefix (same behaviour with Win10)

Any advice welcome!
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Any advice welcome!
Run the Sonos app in a virtual machine containing a supported OS.
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Any advice welcome!
Run the Sonos app in a virtual machine containing a supported OS.


It's running on an atom 450 netbook - as far as I know it doesn't have virtualisation in the bios. Also, don't want to shell out for another pay-for OS!