WLM 8.5 won't let me enter my email or password on Wine

Messenger Support
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For some reason whenever I try to enter my email/password, it won’t let me.

Any help?

EDIT: I’m using Wine on Ubuntu MATE 17.10

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In order to be of assistance, we’ll need to know any error messages appearing, error codes shown, operating system used, that sort of thing.

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Oh, forgot to include that. I’m using Wine 3.4 on Ubuntu MATE 17.10.

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Ah, yeah that makes more sense now :wink:

I’m not sure which Wine I was using at the time, but recently I attempted using 8.5 and although I managed to sign in, the conversation text boxes had the same issue. This isn’t too surprising as the newer Messenger versions use more non-standard user interface elements/libraries.

However, I have found that 7.5 works. For my use, I am using PlayOnLinux with the following components/libraries selected:

POL_Install_corefonts
POL_Install_directplay
POL_Install_gdiplus
POL_Install_msxml3
POL_Install_riched20
POL_Install_riched30
POL_Install_tahoma

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For some odd reason I can’t download any of those. The download keeps failing when I get to 8MB.

EDIT: Works perfectly in wget, too!

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how did u use wget?

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It doesnt work, follwed the steps but the email box is small yeah