Okay I'm exploring Linux more, but one thing I really miss from windows is messenger plus live. It had some tools that were indispensable and the scripts are awesome. I know about things like amsn, and kapoti, but I prefer msn and messenger plus has me spoiled.
I've managed to get windows messenger live to run on wine. Well sorta. It'll get to the part where you put in your login. It's alot farther then I thought I'd get!
I can't log in cause the text inputs for password and username don't work. Now here's the rub. The installer for live says messenger says it won't install cause it's not "xp". I'm working on figuring out a way around that. Basically I ended up just coping the whole windows live folder to wine. After using dependency walker to track down some extra dlls (plus installed the visual c++ runtime) it needs this works.
Now here's the rub.
When I try to install plus it tells me messenger isn't installed. Where does it check to see if msn is installed? I'm guessing the registry? if so where?
so I can copy it from vista to wine?
